Money and art are far apart.
LANGSTON HUGHESI’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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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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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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