The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
LANGSTON HUGHESLIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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!
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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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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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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To 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.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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