We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
LANGSTON HUGHESA dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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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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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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