Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
LANGSTON HUGHESThere is no color line in art.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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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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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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