The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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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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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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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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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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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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