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.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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 a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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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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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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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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