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"20 Langston Hughes Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 1 February 1902. Died: 22 May 1967 | Novelist | Poet |

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Life Fast Dream Field
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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.
Beat Drops Head Kiss
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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.

Ape Autumn Beauty Dying
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Deep Grown Like My Soul
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Air Cleanse Cool Earth
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Democracy Everybody Lord Me
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Care Cry Out People
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Got Humor Laughing Ought
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Always Being Bore Poor
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

Does Dream Dry Explode
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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.

Almost Anywhere Discovered Getting
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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.

Afraid Also Artist Certainly
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

America Been Concerned Depicting
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Violent anger makes me physically ill.

Anger Ill Makes Me
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

Able All My Life Anything Been
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I must never write when I do not want to write.

Must Never Want Write
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

Advanced American Among Art
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

American Among Artist Be Different
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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!'

Accepts Am Any Art
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

America Between Early Jewish
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.

Both Eyes Jewish Jewish People
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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

About Books Children Great
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Artist Beauty Interpret Mission
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

Get Go Like Somewhere
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

Andy Better Even Imagine
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Langston Hughes Quotes & Sayings