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.
LANGSTON HUGHESMoney and art are far apart.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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 for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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