I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
LANGSTON HUGHESThere’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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