The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
LANGSTON HUGHESBut there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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