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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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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.
Langston Hughes
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Langston Hughes
I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
Langston Hughes
They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.
Langston Hughes
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
Langston Hughes
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
Langston Hughes
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.
Langston Hughes
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.
Langston Hughes
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
Langston Hughes
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
Langston Hughes
Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
Langston Hughes
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes
Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.
Langston Hughes
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.
Langston Hughes
Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
Langston Hughes
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.
Langston Hughes
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
Langston Hughes
The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.
Langston Hughes
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
Langston Hughes
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
Langston Hughes
