LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
LANGSTON HUGHESNegro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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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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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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