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!
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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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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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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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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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