Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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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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