Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
LANGSTON HUGHESI 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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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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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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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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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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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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