When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Meaning of the quote

When people show they care about you and they get emotional (cry) for you, it can help fix or improve your inner feelings and thoughts (soul). Langston Hughes, a famous American poet, is saying that having people who care for you can help you feel better and be in a better state of mind.

About Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was an acclaimed American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist who was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He pioneered the literary form of jazz poetry and wrote extensively about the African-American experience, including the period when Harlem was thriving and in vogue.

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More quotes from Langston Hughes

I will not take “but” for an answer.

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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?… Or does it explode?

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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

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Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Langston Hughes

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Negroes – Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day – They change their mind.

Langston Hughes

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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

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(1901-1967) American writer and social activist

Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.

Langston Hughes

(1901-1967) American writer and social activist

It’s such a Bore Being always Poor.

Langston Hughes

(1901-1967) American writer and social activist

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

(1901-1967) American writer and social activist

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

(1901-1967) American writer and social activist