13 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.
- 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.
- Success is a three-legged stool: advice from friends, ego caught in the plumbing, and gravity reminding you it’s easy to fall.
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