A dream deferred is a dream denied.
LANGSTON HUGHESA 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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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 a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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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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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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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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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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