Life dosent frighten me at all.
LANGSTON HUGHESPolitics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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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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