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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.
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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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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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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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.
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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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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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Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.
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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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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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