There is no color line in art.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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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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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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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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