Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Words 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.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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Both 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.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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