"When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police."

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Source : Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.270, University of Missouri Press

Langston Hughes

#Moon Quotes #Color Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.”
“History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Who knows why men do anything?”
“You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.â€ â€œIâ€™m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.”
“My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.”
“I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?”
“I'm a sentimental guy.”
“The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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