Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
LANGSTON HUGHESWell, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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 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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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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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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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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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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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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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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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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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