Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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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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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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 is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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