The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
LANGSTON HUGHESEverything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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There is no color line in art.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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