Best Langston Hughes Sayings
- They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after… Beat
- Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of… Christ
- Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home. Always Thought
- As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window… From
- Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a… Bronx
- Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want… All
- When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police. Begin
- Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along. Along
- If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo… Aside
- When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out,… Baseball
- Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold… Charge
- Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language. Always Singing
- It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out,… Cut
- These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored. Another Ten
- Road's in front o' me, Nothin' to do but walk. Front
- I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my… Act
- I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid… Applied
- It's such a Bore Being always Poor. Always Poor
- Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas Beautiful
- Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. Beat
- Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Adventure
- Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. Air
- What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode? Deferred
- Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Happiness
- I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. Almost Anywhere
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