The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhat happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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 don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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