Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESI’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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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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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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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