Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
LANGSTON HUGHESRoad’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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