Langston Hughes Quotes

When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

OppressionNow dreamsAre not availableTo the dreamers,Nor songsTo the singers.In some landsDark night...

Question and AnswerDurban, Birmingham,Cape Town, Alabama,Johannesburg, Watts,The earth aroundStruggl...

Words Like FreedomThere are words like FreedomSweet and wonderful to say.On my heartstrings freedom ...

Hold fast to dreamsfor if dreams dielife is a broken-winged birdthat can not fly.Hold fast to dreams...

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Looks like what drives me crazyDon't have no effect on you--But I'm gonna keep on at itTill it drive...

The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water.

So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was...

Joe has sense enough to knowHe is a god.So many gods don't know.

Out of love,No regrets--Though the goodnessBe wasted forever.Out of love,No regrets--Though the retu...

I will take your heart.I will take your soul out of your bodyAs though I were God.I will not be sati...

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we di...

I, too, sing America.I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,Bu...

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

Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me...

People up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled, but det...

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or ...

I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books...

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

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except i...

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without...

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beatin...

I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in h...

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

My old man's a white old manAnd my old mother's black.If ever I cursed my white old manI take my cur...

I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its pat...

Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding,Each detail minding,Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

What happens to a dream deferred?

God in his infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take Go...

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

Good morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?Listen closely:You'll...

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

Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro ...

I stay cool, and dig all jive,That's the way I stay alive.My motto, as I live and learn, isDig and b...

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

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing ...

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

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

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

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods Tha...

I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our Eng...

Violent anger makes me physically ill.

Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.

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

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

Sometimes a crumb fallsFrom the tables of joy, Sometimes a boneIs flung.To some peopleLove is given,...

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

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