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.
LANGSTON HUGHESWe younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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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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