Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
LANGSTON HUGHESIt has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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There is no color line in art.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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