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Langston Hughes Quotes

«I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me»
Author: Langston Hughes (Essayist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: swear
«It's such a Bore Being always Poor»
Author: Langston Hughes (Essayist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: bore
«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.»
«We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives . . . Censorship for us begins at the color line.»
«What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? . . . Or does it explode?»
«Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.»
«Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.»
Author: Langston Hughes (Essayist, Poet, Writer) | About: Humor | Keywords: cleanse
«I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.»

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