Life dosent frighten me at all.
LANGSTON HUGHESYet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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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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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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