Life dosent frighten me at all.
LANGSTON HUGHES
LANGSTON HUGHES
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Money and art are far apart.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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More on fear
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
John DonneJohn Donne What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
Vikram SethVikram Seth Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson