My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
LANGSTON HUGHESLike a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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There is no color line in art.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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