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!
LANGSTON HUGHESCheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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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 calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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