The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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