The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
LANGSTON HUGHESA dream deferred is a dream denied.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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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 dosent frighten me at all.
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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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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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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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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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