I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
LANGSTON HUGHESGood morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your 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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There is no color line in art.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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 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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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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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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