Money and art are far apart.
LANGSTON HUGHESBeauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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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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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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