The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
LANGSTON HUGHESGo home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old 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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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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