The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
LANGSTON HUGHESLet the rain sing you a lullaby.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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O, 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.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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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 am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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