QUOTES by Langston Hughes
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How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
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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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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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
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...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,....
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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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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.
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I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me.
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I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
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So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
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Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
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Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.
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Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that can not fly. Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go life is a barren field frozen with snow.
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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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I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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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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