If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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There is no color line in art.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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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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