Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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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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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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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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