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 HUGHESThe 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 HUGHESLove is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
LANGSTON HUGHESOne of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
LANGSTON HUGHESI look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
LANGSTON HUGHESFor poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
LANGSTON HUGHESSometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
LANGSTON HUGHESPleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
LANGSTON HUGHESPolitics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
LANGSTON HUGHESMoney and art are far apart.
LANGSTON HUGHESLet the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESLike a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
LANGSTON HUGHESOut of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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.
LANGSTON HUGHES