I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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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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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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