If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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