Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
LANGSTON HUGHESO, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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There is no color line in art.
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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