Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
LANGSTON HUGHESWell, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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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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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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