Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
LANGSTON HUGHESLet the rain sing you a lullaby.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Money and art are far apart.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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