A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
LANGSTON HUGHESMisery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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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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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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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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