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.
LANGSTON HUGHESOut of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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!
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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