Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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Money and art are far apart.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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