Best Langston Hughes Quotations
- An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. Afraid
- Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. Beware
- I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me. Democracy
- When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. Care
- Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. Ape
- We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. All
- Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem… All
- I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would. Asked
- ...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,.... Finally
- Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between. Birthing
- To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven. Given
- Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be. Dust
- I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug… Alive
- I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend. Began
- Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. Drink
- Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- Diamond
- Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake Brake
- Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the… Across
- Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven. Bone
- How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm Calm
- I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat… America
- Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose. Believe
- What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does… Crust
- Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never. Forever
- Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too. Crazy
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