Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
LANGSTON HUGHESNever look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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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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There is no color line in art.
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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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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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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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