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.
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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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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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