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.
LANGSTON HUGHESGood morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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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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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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