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.
LANGSTON HUGHESLove is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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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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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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