Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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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 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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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