Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
LANGSTON HUGHESLet the rain sing you a lullaby.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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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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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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