Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
LANGSTON HUGHESBoth 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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