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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.

Langston Hughes

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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Care Different Each Other Ethnicity Nation Togetherness Unity
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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Doubt Equality Goodness Kindness Learning Myself Sin
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Eyes Love Mistake Relationship Search Yourself
Money and art are far apart.
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Art Money One Liner
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Condition Explanation Human Kind Seek
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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Beginning Black Live Oppression Ourselves Poet Writing
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Calm Cool Face Kiss Myself River
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Death Life Live Music Note
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Earth Rain Summer Welcome Yourself
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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Hungry Morning Myself Price
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Big Life Myself
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Breathe Country Equality
One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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Difficult Greatness Help Minority Race
I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth Human Old River Soul World
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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Believe Creative Direction Politics Reaction Success Thinking Writing
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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Country Goodness Myself People Race

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.

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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.

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