Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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