Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
LANGSTON HUGHESThat Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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 is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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