Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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 dosent frighten me at all.
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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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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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