Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
LANGSTON HUGHESMost musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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