The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
LANGSTON HUGHESKeep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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A 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.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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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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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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