I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
LANGSTON HUGHESTo 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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There is no color line in art.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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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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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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