Langston Hughes quotes

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. (Langston Hughes)
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. View quote
Langston Hughes
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. View quote
Langston Hughes
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. View quote
Langston Hughes
I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. View quote
Langston Hughes
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. View quote
Langston Hughes
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. View quote
Langston Hughes
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. View quote
Langston Hughes
I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. View quote
Langston Hughes
Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake. View quote
Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? (Langston Hughes)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. View quote
Langston Hughes
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness. View quote
Langston Hughes
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly. View quote
Langston Hughes
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true. View quote
Langston Hughes
While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve - and hate will die unborn. Love - and chains are broken. View quote
Langston Hughes
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 well, And grow strong. View quote
Langston Hughes
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. View quote
Langston Hughes
Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree. View quote
Langston Hughes
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. View quote
Langston Hughes
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (Langston Hughes)
O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! View quote
Langston Hughes
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 The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers, The mountains and the endless plain - All, all the stretch of these great green states - And make America again! View quote
Langston Hughes
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left. View quote
Langston Hughes
There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred. View quote
Langston Hughes