I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to t... - Langston Hughes

"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 went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and sank."

"Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon."

"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."

"Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be."