Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife dosent frighten me at all.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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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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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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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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