Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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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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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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