Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people… — 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
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
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas — 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
