We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
LANGSTON HUGHESTo create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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There is no color line in art.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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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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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Money and art are far apart.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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