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. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Life dosent frighten me at all. - Langston Hughes
Life dosent frighten me at all.
- Langston Hughes
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
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself - Langston Hughes
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomo… - Langston Hughes
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomo…
A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free. - Langston Hughes
A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? - Langston Hughes
I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any … - Langston Hughes
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any …
The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm - Langston Hughes
The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star. - Langston Hughes
Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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