Langston Hughes Quotes
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Langston Hughes Famous Quotes & Sayings
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How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.
~ "Sea Calm
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.
~ "Sea Calm
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love
But for livin' I was born.
But for livin' I was born.
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it, ...
Gather quickly
Out of darkness
All the songs you know
And throw them at the sun
Before they melt
Like snow.
Out of darkness
All the songs you know
And throw them at the sun
Before they melt
Like snow.
We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
Out of love,
No regrets
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.
Out of love,
No regrets
Though the return
Be never.
No regrets
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.
Out of love,
No regrets
Though the return
Be never.
I stay cool, and dig all jive,
That's the way I stay alive.
My motto,
as I live and learn,
is
Dig and be dug
In return.
That's the way I stay alive.
My motto,
as I live and learn,
is
Dig and be dug
In return.
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.
As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,
I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.
Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you
But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.
God in his infinite wisdom
Did not make me very wise-
So when my actions are stupid
They hardly take God by surprise.
Did not make me very wise-
So when my actions are stupid
They hardly take God by surprise.
Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry
I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.