Tag: Langston Hughes
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white,’ hidden in the aspirations of his people, to ‘Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!’
Langston Hughes
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes
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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.
Langston Hughes
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I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like ‘Tristan,’ goat’s milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike ‘Aida,’ parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.
Langston Hughes
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I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.
Langston Hughes
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
Langston Hughes
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Writing is like travelling. It’s wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
Langston Hughes
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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.
Langston Hughes