The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
LANGSTON HUGHESMost musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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 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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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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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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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