For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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