Artist Quotes by Langston Hughes

8 Artist quotes by Langston Hughes

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Hughes often celebrated the power of the artist’s voice. These eight lines give a snapshot of his belief in art as a force for expression and social insight, perfect for a quick read.

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

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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro…

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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are…

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

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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are…

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There is no color line in art.

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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put…

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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old…

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Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep…

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

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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

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“As I Grew Older" It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of…

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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words…

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

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“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these do not…

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

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Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country…

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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

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“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…

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Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.

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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…

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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.

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