Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
LANGSTON HUGHESMy seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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