The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
LANGSTON HUGHESHang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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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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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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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.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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There is no color line in art.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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