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.
LANGSTON HUGHESLove is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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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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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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