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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

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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 1st, 1902

Died: May 22nd, 1967

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