Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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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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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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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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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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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