Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
LANGSTON HUGHESFor my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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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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.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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