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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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.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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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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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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