Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. Langston Hughes More Quotes by Langston Hughes More Quotes From Langston Hughes Let the rain sing you a lullaby. Langston Hughes best-kissliquidrain Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along. Langston Hughes prejudiceblackwhite Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Langston Hughes laughterhumorhappiness I will not take "but" for an answer. Langston Hughes literatureanswersattitude Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose. Langston Hughes newsmightbelieve Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown. Langston Hughes tunnelsnew-yorkdream Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud. Langston Hughes bannerblackproud 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. Langston Hughes artistwhitedark The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss Langston Hughes kissingfacesrivers 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. Langston Hughes atheismchristiandoubt 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. Langston Hughes minoritiesracehelping I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Langston Hughes riversscienceblood Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat? Langston Hughes dreammorningthinking 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 writingmenbook Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding. Langston Hughes waltfindingsdetails Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye. Langston Hughes appleseyelove My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind. Langston Hughes kindhumansamerica Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die. Langston Hughes maysweetbaby 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! Langston Hughes jealousfalling-in-lovebeauty I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies. Langston Hughes womenwifewish
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