Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESGather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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