For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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