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!
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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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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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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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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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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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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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 dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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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