Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
LANGSTON HUGHESI tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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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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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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