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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American Poet
Born: Feb 1, 1902
Died: May 22, 1967
Been Life Me People Writing You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes
Life Dreams Bird Fly Life Is A Die Hold Cannot Fast
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. Langston Hughes
You Rain Welcome Humor Air Summer Earth Cleanse Like May Cool Suddenly
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. Langston Hughes
Nature You Rain Kiss Silver Beat Head Drops Sing Liquid Your Lullaby
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode? Langston Hughes
Sun Dream Like Dry Does Up Happens Explode Raisin
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me. Langston Hughes
Me Democracy Everybody See Lord Still Swear Means Why
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
Life You Ways Almost Go Discovered Getting Want Anywhere Really
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves. Langston Hughes
People Beauty Mission Perhaps Within Artist Themselves Interpret
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Langston Hughes
Soul My Soul Rivers Like Deep Grown
Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying. Langston Hughes
Tired You Writing Wonderful Somewhere Staying Like Go Get Travelling
The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror. Langston Hughes
Eyes People Jewish People Both Know Looked Supremacy Terror Meaning Meaning Of Jewish
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. Langston Hughes
Life Work Smile Me Soul Joy World Laughter White Jazz Pain Weariness Beating Revolt Trains America Swallowed Against Eternal Subway White World Inherent Expressions
I will not take 'but' for an answer. Langston Hughes
Will Take Answer
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughes
Life Dreams Life Is A Field Go Snow Frozen Hold Barren Fast
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud. Langston Hughes
Great Needs Books About Proud Children Them Themselves Help Lives
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. Langston Hughes
Life Freedom Writing Free My Life Field All My Life Able Except Never Been Anything
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. Langston Hughes
Happiness Nature Gorgeous Beauty Autumn Sunsets Some Provides Escape Dying Gain Ape Who Exquisitely
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!' Langston Hughes
Beautiful Art Change People Old Mind Duty White Hidden Through Outsiders He Force Accepts Am His Any Artist Duties Want Younger Whispering Should Aspirations Why
It's such a Bore Being always Poor. Langston Hughes
Bore Always Being Poor
I must never write when I do not want to write. Langston Hughes
Must Write Never Want
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 are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. Langston Hughes
Beautiful People Fear Ugly Matter White Too Our Pleased Shame Individual Glad Know Without Selves Intend Artists Younger Create Who Express Now
My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast. Langston Hughes
Me Experience Writing World National Additional Immediate Has-Been Jobs All-Star More Cast Performed Major Around Were Been Years Five Commercial Than Personal Personal Experience Done Script Scripts Asked Produced Requests Four
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. Langston Hughes
Work Creative Culture Better Matter Black Manners White Enough Furnish Be Different Classes Lifetime Outside Without Still His American Artist Going Different Race Creative Work Even Among Sufficient Conscious

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