I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
LANGSTON HUGHESWords Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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