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I will not take but for an answer.
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
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Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.
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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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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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Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
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So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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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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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!
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Money and art are far apart.
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