Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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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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