This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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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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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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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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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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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