Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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