Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
LANGSTON HUGHESBut 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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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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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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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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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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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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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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