I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
LANGSTON HUGHES
Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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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 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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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