Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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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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