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Langston Hughes Quote on People Walking Tightropes

"I had seen people walking tightropes everywhere... Anybody is liable to fall off a tightrope in any land, I thought, and God help you if you fall the wrong way."

African-American Author Langston Hughes (Feb 1, 1901/1902-1967)

The above quote is from Langston Hughes's I WONDER AS A I WANDER, the second volume of the great Harlem Renaissance writer's accounts of his travels around the world. These words summed up travels in 1937 after he'd logged reports on the United States, Cuba, Japan, Russia, and Spain, and then headed for Paris.

The "tightropes" to which he was referring were woven of public and private human conditions similar to those confronting many of us in the 21st century. In the extended passage from which the quote was taken, he alluded more precisely to: "the tightrope of color in Alabama, the tightrope of transition in the Soviet Union, the tightrope of repression in Japan, the tightrope...

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