Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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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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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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