When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Money and art are far apart.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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