All Langston Hughes Quotes
- There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I… America
- We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are… Artist
- In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car windows are down.… Alike
- Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. Convenient
- I will not take "but" for an answer. Answer
- Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going. Beat
- Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul Leaves
- I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. Africa
- It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want… Art
- Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye. Apple
- 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 to realize that… Americans
- It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been. Been
- Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black… Black
- My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind, All
- Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful! Beautiful
- My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Deep
- Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better. Beer
- Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree. Gnarled
- Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. America
- America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be! America