A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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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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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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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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