Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
LANGSTON HUGHESI went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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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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