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.
LANGSTON HUGHESI 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!
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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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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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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