Quotes by 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.
• When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?
• We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
• Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
• It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
• I will not take "but" for an answer.
• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
• I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
• Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
• An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
• Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
• Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
• Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.
• Life is like a camera; focus on what's important, capture the good times, and convert the negatives into positives.
• Success is a three-legged stool: advice from friends, ego caught in the plumbing, and gravity reminding you it’s easy to fall.