We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
LANGSTON HUGHESMy seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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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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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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