I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
LANGSTON HUGHESI don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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 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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