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 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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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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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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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