There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
LANGSTON HUGHESA picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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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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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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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’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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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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 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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