The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
LANGSTON HUGHESHold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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There is no color line in art.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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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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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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