Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
LANGSTON HUGHESTeach 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!
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have 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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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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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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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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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