Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
LANGSTON HUGHESOut of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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