No woman can be handsome by the force of features…

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

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Other Langston Hughes Quotes

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…
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America. - View Quote Details on They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —…
The night is beautiful,
So are the faces of my people. - View Quote Details on The night is beautiful,
So are the faces of my people.
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…
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 Details on When you turn the corner
And you run into yourself…
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…
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath —
America will be! - View Quote Details on O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America…
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 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…
You talk like they
don’t kick dreams
around downtown. - View Quote Details on You talk like they
don’t kick dreams
around downtown.