Money and art are far apart.
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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There is no color line in art.
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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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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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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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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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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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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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