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.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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 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.
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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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.
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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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