Money and art are far apart.
LANGSTON HUGHESGood morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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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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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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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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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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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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