If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
LANGSTON HUGHESGather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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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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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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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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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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