Quotes by Langston Hughes
I will not take 'but' for an answer.
It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me—...
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
