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Langston Hughes Quotes about Sleep

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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Langston Hughes
Sleep, Thinking, Drink
Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.248, Vintage

The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.

Langston Hughes
Song, Rain, Sleep
Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.52, University of Missouri Press

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.

Langston Hughes
Sleep, Sunset, New Orleans
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" l. 1 (1921)

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