Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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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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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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