The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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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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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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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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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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