Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
LANGSTON HUGHESNever look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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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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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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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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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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