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> [I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/i-am-a-negro-black-as-the-night-is-black-black-like-the-depths-of-my/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/why-should-i-want-to-be-white-i-am-a-negro-and-beautiful/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/one-of-the-great-needs-of-negro-children-is-to-have-books-about/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/the-depression-brought-everybody-down-a-peg-or-two-and-the-negro-had/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [“Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/of-course-covarrubias-wasn-t-a-negro-but-how-he-caught-the-darky/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/my-seeking-has-been-to-explain-and-illuminate-the-negro-condition-in/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/sometimes-i-wish-the-public-were-equally-aware-of-the-men-of-our-race/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/it-is-the-duty-of-the-younger-negro-artist-to-change-through-the/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/if-the-government-can-set-aside-some-spot-for-a-elk-to-be-a-elk/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/negro-blood-is-sure-powerful-because-just-one-drop-of-black-blood/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/if-you-want-to-honor-me-give-some-young-boy-or-girl-who-s-coming/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/without-going-outside-his-race-and-even-among-the-better-classes-with/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/to-my-mind-it-is-the-duty-of-the-younger-negro-artist-if-he-accepts/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/we-younger-negro-artists-who-create-now-intend-to-express-our-2/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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## Other authors on Negro

## More by Langston Hughes

> [Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/good-morning-daddy-ain-t-you-heard-the-boogie-woogie-rumble-of-a/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/summer-was-made-to-give-you-a-taste-of-what-hell-is-like-winter-was/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/i-was-a-victim-of-a-stereotype-there-were-only-two-of-us-negro-kids/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/i-am-the-american-heartbreak-the-rock-on-which-freedom-stumped-its-toe/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [“As I Grew Older" It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/as-i-grew-older-it-was-a-long-time-ago-i-have-almost-forgotten-my/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/words-like-freedom-there-are-words-like-freedom-sweet-and-wonderful/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/beauty-for-some-provides-escape-who-gain-a-happiness-in-eyeing-the/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/in-america-the-magazines-in-which-one-can-frequently-publish-stories/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/perhaps-the-mission-of-an-artist-is-to-interpret-beauty-to-people-the/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/negro-writers-just-by-being-black-have-been-on-the-blacklist-all-our/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/we-negro-writers-just-by-being-black-have-been-on-the-blacklist-all/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/hold-fast-to-dreams-for-if-dreams-die-life-is-a-broken-winged-bird/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/oh-god-of-dust-and-rainbows-help-us-to-see-that-without-the-dust-the/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/i-loved-my-friend-he-went-away-from-me-there-s-nothing-more-to-say/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

> [The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/the-jewish-people-and-the-negro-people-both-know-the-meaning-of/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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