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
Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall. — 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
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
