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!
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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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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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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Money and art are far apart.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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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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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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