Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
LANGSTON HUGHESLet the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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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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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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