Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Money and art are far apart.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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