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
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry.… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“ The Dream Keeper Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamer, Bring me all your Heart melodies That I may wrap… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“I am so tired of waiting. Aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk,… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which… — 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
“America is a dream. The poet says it was promises. The people say it is promises—that will come true. The people do… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“poet Langston Hughes #6 on top 500 poets Poet's PagePoemsQuotesCommentsStatsE-BooksBiographyVideosShare on FacebookShare on Twitter Poems by Langston Hughes : 21 / 104… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these… — 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
