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.
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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Money and art are far apart.
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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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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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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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