Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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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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