Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Money and art are far apart.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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