Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESMost musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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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 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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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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