Life: Half-truths and Lies – Langston Hughes

„Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.“

Langston HughesLangston Hughes describes life as a system of half-truths, lies, and convenient evasions.
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Langston Hughes was an American poet and writer of the Harlem Renaissance.

This sentence describes life's reality as a mix of truth and deceit.


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Quote about life being a system of half-truths and lies by Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance, an influential African American artistic movement. His poem "I, Too, Sing America" became an icon of the civil rights movement. Hughes described himself as "unfortunately" rather light-skinned. His works reflect the life and experiences of African American people.

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"…life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies…Because the regime is captive to its own lies it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics." Vaclav Havel
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