When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
LANGSTON HUGHESLike a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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