For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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