Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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I 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!
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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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