We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
LANGSTON HUGHESEverybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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