The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
LANGSTON HUGHESMoney and art are far apart.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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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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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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