Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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