Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
LANGSTON HUGHESHang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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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.
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