Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
LANGSTON HUGHESEverything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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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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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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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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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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There is no color line in art.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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