Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
LANGSTON HUGHESI 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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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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