I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
LANGSTON HUGHESI don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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