I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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