There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
LANGSTON HUGHESPeace 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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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.
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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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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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