The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
LANGSTON HUGHESMy soul has grown deep like the rivers.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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