Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
(Quoted in Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs, 2002)

Langston Hughes

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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.

Langston Hughes (Quoted in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, 2003)

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 (Quoted in Autobiography: I wonder as I wander, 2003)

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Langston Hughes (Dreams)

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