Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
LANGSTON HUGHESIf the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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