Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESBooks -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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There is no color line in art.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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