When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
LANGSTON HUGHESBooks -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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