The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Money and art are far apart.
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There is no color line in art.
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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