Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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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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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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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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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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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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