Best Langston Hughes Quotes
- Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams... African American
- I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long. Answer
- Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat? Beat
- For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly. Beautiful
- I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream,… All
- What happens to a dream deferred? Deferred
- We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves. Build
- Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that… All
- A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man is free Black
- Life for me ain't been no crystal stair Been
- But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That… America
- Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling. Big
- Let the rain sing you a lullaby. Inspirational
- I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Beautiful
- I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe. American
- For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything. All
- The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm Inspirational
- Money and art are far apart. Apart
- A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is… Associate
- Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought… Aware
- I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll… Beauty
- If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing… Act
- The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone… Bill
- This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get… Appetite
- Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you… Any
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