Money and art are far apart.
LANGSTON HUGHESI am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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