Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESBoth 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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