I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe. — 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
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind, — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been. — 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
Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on — 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
