Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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