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!
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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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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