When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
LANGSTON HUGHESReach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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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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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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The 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.
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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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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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