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.
Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star. - Langston Hughes
Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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
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