Langston Hughes Quotes

"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Soul, Care)

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?"
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Dream, Sun)

"We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Being, Censorship, Writers)

"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Humor, Earth, May, Rain, Summer)

"It's such a Bore Being always Poor."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Being, Poor)

"I will not take "but" for an answer."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Will)

"I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Democracy)

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Life, Want)

"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Life, Dreams)

"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Beauty, Happiness, Autumn, Dying, Gain)

"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Artist)

"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Humor)

"Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Change, Day, Mind)