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.
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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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