Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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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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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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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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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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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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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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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