Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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I 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.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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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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