Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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There is no color line in art.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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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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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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