The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
LANGSTON HUGHESWhiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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.
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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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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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