Money and art are far apart.
LANGSTON HUGHESMoney and art are far apart.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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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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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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