Fine Clothes to the Jew Quotes

“Song For a Dark Girl Way Down South in Dixie ​(Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover ​To a cross roads tree. Way Down South in Dixie ​(Bruised body high in air) I asked the white Lord Jesus ​What was the use of prayer. Way Down South in Dixie ​(Break the heart of me) Love is a naked shadow ​On a gnarled and naked tree.”
― Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes To The Jew - Poems of Black America in the 1920s

“Magnolia Flowers The quiet fading out of life In a corner full of ugliness.”
― Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes To The Jew - Poems of Black America in the 1920s

“Bad Luck Card Cause you don’t love me Is awful, awful hard. Gypsy done showed me Ma bad luck card. There ain’t no good left In this world for me. Gypsy done tole me, -- Unlucky as can be. I don’t know what Po’ weary me can do. Gypsy says I’d kill ma self If I was you.”
― Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes To The Jew - Poems of Black America in the 1920s

“Beale Street Love Love Is a brown man’s fist With hard knuckles Crushing the lips, Blackening the eyes – Hit me again, Says Clorinda.”
― Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes To The Jew - Poems of Black America in the 1920s

“Love, Oh, love is Such a strange disease. Love, Oh, love is Such a strange disease. When it hurts yo’ heart you Sho can’t find no ease.”
― Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes To The Jew - Poems of Black America in the 1920s