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.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Money and art are far apart.
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