We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
LANGSTON HUGHESSometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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