Unmarried Like Quotes 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?

— 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…

— 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…

— Langston Hughes

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Langston Hughes

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

— 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…

— Langston Hughes

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

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— Langston Hughes