Top 186 Quotes & Sayings by Langston Hughes - Page 4

Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car windows are down. It raineth on the Just and the Unjust Alike, But the Unjust stealeth the Just's umbrella Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.

Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.