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.
LANGSTON HUGHESHang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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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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There is no color line in art.
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