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.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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A 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.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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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.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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 a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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