For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
LANGSTON HUGHESLet the rain sing you a lullaby.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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