One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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