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Langston Hughes
American
Poet
About the author
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Rain
#Kiss
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Soul
#Care
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Dream
#Sun
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Being
#Writers
#Censorship
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#May
#Earth
#Summer
#Humor
#Rain
It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Being
#Poor
I will not take "but" for an answer.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Will
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Democracy
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Want
#Life
Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Life
#Dreams
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Beauty
#Gain
#Happiness
#Dying
#Autumn
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Artist
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Humor
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
Langston Hughes,
American
Poet
#Day
#Mind
#Change