I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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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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