The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
LANGSTON HUGHESHumor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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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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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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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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 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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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