Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESLooks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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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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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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