Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“2 and 2 are 4. 4 and 4 are 8. But what would happen If the last 4 was late? And how… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree. Way… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I’s been livin’ a long time in yesterday, Sandy chile, an’ I knows there ain’t no room in de world fo’ nothin’… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
You and I By Henry Alford My hand is lonely for your clasping, dear; My ear is tired waiting for your call.… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat? — Langston Hughes Copy Share
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep… — Langston Hughes Copy Share
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was… — Langston Hughes Copy Share
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe. — Langston Hughes Copy Share
“As I Grew Older" It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of… — Langston Hughes Copy Share
Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words… — Langston Hughes Copy Share
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. — Langston Hughes Copy Share
“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these do not… — Langston Hughes Copy Share
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves. — Langston Hughes Copy Share
Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country… — Langston Hughes Copy Share
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. — Langston Hughes Copy Share
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that can not fly. Hold fast to dreams for when dreams… — Langston Hughes Copy Share
Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be. — Langston Hughes Copy Share
I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my… — Langston Hughes Copy Share
The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror. — Langston Hughes Copy Share
