Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
LANGSTON HUGHESBlues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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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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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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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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