When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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