I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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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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