Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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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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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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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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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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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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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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That 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.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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