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.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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