Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESO, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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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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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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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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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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