Langston Hughes Quotes

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech. - View Quote Details on No woman can be handsome by the force of features…
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly. - View Quote Details on Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged…
The stars went out and so did the moon.
The singer stopped playing and went to bed
While the Weary Blues echoed through his head.
He slept like a rock or a man that’s dead. - View Quote Details on The stars went out and so did the moon.
The singer…
Why should it be my loneliness,
Why should it be my song,
Why should it be my dream
deferred
overlong? - View Quote Details on Why should it be my loneliness,
Why should it be…
The instructor said, - View Quote Details on The instructor said,
Dream within a dream,
Our dream deferred.
Good morning, daddy!
Ain’t you heard? - View Quote Details on Dream within a dream,
Our dream deferred.
Good morning, daddy!…
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery’s scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek —
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak. - View Quote Details on I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I…
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives… Censorship for us begins at the color line. - View Quote Details on We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on…
Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
They hung my black young lover
To a cross roads tree. - View Quote Details on Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
They hung…
I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. - View Quote Details on I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has…
I swear to the Lord
I still can’t see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me. - View Quote Details on I swear to the Lord
I still can’t see
Why Democracy means
Everybody…
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man. - View Quote Details on To create a market for your writing you have to…
A certain amount
of nothing
in a dream deferred. - View Quote Details on A certain amount
of nothing
in a dream…
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 Details on I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world…
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it. - View Quote Details on Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you…
I was so sick last night I
Didn’t hardly know my mind.
So sick last night I
Didn’t know my mind.
I drunk some bad licker that
Almost made me blind. - View Quote Details on I was so sick last night I
Didn’t hardly know my…
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 Details on O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is…
I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread. - View Quote Details on I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take…
What happens
to a dream deferred?
Daddy, ain’t you heard? - View Quote Details on What happens
to a dream deferred?
Daddy, ain’t you…
You talk like they
don’t kick dreams
around downtown. - View Quote Details on You talk like they
don’t kick dreams
around downtown.
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 Details on I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They…
For all the dreams we’ve dreamed
And all the songs we’ve sung
And all the hopes we’ve held
And all the flags we’ve hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay —
Except the dream that’s almost dead today. - View Quote Details on For all the dreams we’ve dreamed
And all the songs…
O, let America be America again —
The land that never has been yet —
And yet must be — the land where every man is free. - View Quote Details on O, let America be America again —
The land that…
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. - View Quote Details on Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed —
Let…