Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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