Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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