Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate February 1, 1902

Zodiac Aquarius

Location Joplin, Missouri

Country United States of America

Etnhnicity

Job poets,

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Langston Hughes Quotes

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

Tags: humor

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.

Tags: ancient deep rivers soul

Though you may hear me holler,

And you may see me cry--

I'll be dogged, sweet baby,

If you gonna see me die.

Tags: death hardship pain perseverance

So since I'm still here livin',

I guess I will live on.

I could have died for love--

But for livin' I was born.

Tags: death life love perseverance

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.

Tags: craziness crazy poetry

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Tags: life simplicity

Sometimes a crumb falls

From the tables of joy,

Sometimes a bone

Is flung.

To some people

Love is given,

To others

Only heaven.

Tags: luck

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

Tags: poems

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.

Tags: death desperation drowning poetry suicide

Pleasured equally

In seeking as in finding,

Each detail minding,

Old Walt went seeking

And finding.

Tags: finding poetry seeking

Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird,

That cannot fly.

Tags: dreams insperration knolage wisdom

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