The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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