When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
LANGSTON HUGHESAn artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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