There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
LANGSTON HUGHESReach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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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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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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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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