Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Money and art are far apart.
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