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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
— Langston Hughes
We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?
— Anthony Langston
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
— Langston Hughes
So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for loveBut for livin' I was born. — Langston Hughes
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
— Langston Hughes
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
— Langston Hughes
The prerequisite for writing is having something to say.
— Langston Hughes
The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.
— Langston Hughes
Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
— Langston Hughes
Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
— Langston Hughes
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. — Langston Hughes
Gather quickly Out of darkness
All the songs you know
And throw them at the sun
Before they melt
Like snow. — Langston Hughes
We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
— Langston Hughes
Out of love,No regrets
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.
Out of love,
No regrets
Though the return
Be never. — Langston Hughes
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. — Langston Hughes
Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.
— Langston Hughes
I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
— Langston Hughes
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
— Langston Hughes
When a man starts out to build a world,He starts first with himself — Langston Hughes
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
— Langston Hughes
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.
— Langston Hughes
Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
— Langston Hughes
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead. — Langston Hughes
I hope I never love someone so much that they could hurt me the way Langston was hurt.
— Rachel Cohn
There is no color line in death.
— Langston Hughes
The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water. — Langston Hughes
Joe has sense enough to knowHe is a god.
So many gods don't know. — Langston Hughes
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
— Langston Hughes
Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon. — Langston Hughes
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
— Langston Hughes
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
— Langston Hughes
Obviously, genies worked out in their off-hours. He looked so good it was distracting.
— Elizabeth Langston
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
— Langston Hughes
Road's in front o' me, Nothin' to do but walk.
— Langston Hughes
Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
— Langston Hughes
Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
— Langston Hughes
Langston has been in love. Twice. His first big romance ended so badly that he had to leave
— Rachel Cohn
Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cryI'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die. — Langston Hughes
Money and art are far apart.
— Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly. — Langston Hughes
A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man is free
— Langston Hughes
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.
— Langston Hughes
To some peopleLove is given,
To others
Only Heaven. — Langston Hughes
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
— Langston Hughes
While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.
— Langston Hughes
Friend. Before Mark, I'd known its definition. Now I knew its meaning.
— Elizabeth Langston
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
— Langston Hughes
Life dosent frighten me at all.
— Langston Hughes
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
— Langston Hughes
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,
— Langston Hughes
Violent anger makes me physically ill.
— Langston Hughes
I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
— Langston Hughes
I think it must be one of those things where no one's wrong and everybody loses.
— Elizabeth Langston
Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid. — Langston Hughes
Whatever life throws at you, you must keep on keeping on.
— J.D. Langston
Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
— Langston Hughes
Suicide Note:The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
-Langston Hughes — Kay Redfield Jamison
If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.
— Pearl Cleage
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams ...
— Langston Hughes
A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader's mind gave it life.
— Elizabeth Langston
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
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
— 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
God in his infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-
So when my actions are stupid
They hardly take God by surprise. — Langston Hughes
There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
— Langston Hughes
Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
— Langston Hughes
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One dropyou are a Negro! ... Black is powerful. — Langston Hughes
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.
— Langston Hughes
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
— Langston Hughes
I would rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ~Lucille Ball
— K. Langston
Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first before it boomerangs. — Langston Hughes
Fear is stupid. So are regrets. -Marilyn Monroe
— K. Langston
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
— Langston Hughes
You don't look like a genie.""Palazzo pants and sequined vests don't cut it in the United States. — Elizabeth Langston
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
— Langston Hughes
if you're going to use the word 'dream' in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.
— Jewelle L. Gomez
I loved my friendHe went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend. — Langston Hughes
Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on youBut I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too. — Langston Hughes
The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
— Langston Hughes
