Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
LANGSTON HUGHESOut of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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