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.
LANGSTON HUGHESIf 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Money and art are far apart.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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