When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
LANGSTON HUGHESWe Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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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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There is no color line in art.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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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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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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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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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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