There is no color line in art.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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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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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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