Langston Hughes Famous Quotes

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

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

~ Langston Hughes

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

~ Langston Hughes

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

~ 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.

~ Langston Hughes

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

~ Langston Hughes

I will not take "but" for an answer.

~ Langston Hughes

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

~ Langston Hughes

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

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

~ Langston Hughes

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

~ Langston Hughes

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

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?

~ Langston Hughes

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

~ Langston Hughes

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