Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Money and art are far apart.
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There is no color line in art.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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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.
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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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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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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