When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
LANGSTON HUGHESIf 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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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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