Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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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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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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