For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
LANGSTON HUGHESI do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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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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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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