Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
LANGSTON HUGHESWe build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Money and art are far apart.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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