Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
LANGSTON HUGHESFor poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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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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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 first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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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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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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 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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