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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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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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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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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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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