Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
LANGSTON HUGHESFor poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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There is no color line in art.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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