I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
LANGSTON HUGHESBoth of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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