I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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 is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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