A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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