I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
LANGSTON HUGHESWell, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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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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