The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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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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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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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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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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