My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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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.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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