American - Poet | February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967
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
NatureRainKissYouSilverHead
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
LifeDreamsBirdFlyDieLife Is A
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
RainHumorWelcomeCoolYouEarth
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
LifeDreamsSnowLife Is AFastGo
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
LifeFreedomWritingFreeMy Life
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
LifeWorkSmileSoulPainJoy
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
LifeYouGoWantAnywhereAlmost
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
SoulCareYouCryOutYour
Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
TiredWritingYouGoWonderfulGet
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
BeautyPeopleMissionArtistWithin
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
FearBeautifulUglyPeopleCreate
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
SoulDeepMy SoulRiversLikeGrown
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