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 HUGHESWhen a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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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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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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