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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
— Langston Hughes
How still,How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.
~ "Sea Calm — Langston Hughes
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
I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.
— Langston Hughes
The prerequisite for writing is having something to say.
— Langston Hughes
FreedomIs a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.
I live here, too.
I want freedom
Just as you. — 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
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
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
Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's CakeAnd so must be Till we Learn how to Bake. — Langston Hughes
When a man starts out to build a world,He starts first with himself — Langston Hughes
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
— Langston Hughes
While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.
— 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
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
— Langston Hughes
To some peopleLove is given,
To others
Only Heaven. — 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
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
Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly. — Langston Hughes
Money and art are far apart.
— Langston Hughes
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
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
— Langston Hughes
My father hated Negroes.
— Langston Hughes
It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
— Langston Hughes
Reach Up Your Hand ... and take a star.
— Langston Hughes
The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
— Langston Hughes
Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
— 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
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
— Langston Hughes
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.
— Langston Hughes
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
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
— Langston Hughes
Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
— 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
I asked you, baby,If you understood-
You told me that you didn't,
But you thought you would. — Langston Hughes
Suicide Note:The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
-Langston Hughes — Kay Redfield Jamison
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
Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid. — 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
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
— Langston Hughes
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
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
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
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
I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
— Langston Hughes
There is no color line in death.
— Langston Hughes
The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water. — Langston Hughes
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead. — Langston Hughes
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
— 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
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
— Langston Hughes
Joe has sense enough to knowHe is a god.
So many gods don't know. — 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
Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first before it boomerangs. — Langston Hughes
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
— Langston Hughes
