Life dosent frighten me at all.
LANGSTON HUGHESLet the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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There is no color line in art.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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