Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
LANGSTON HUGHESI’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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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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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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