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 HUGHESWhen peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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