Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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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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