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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
— 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
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
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
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
Unfortunately, now that Langston has a boyfriend again, he has forgotten all about me.
— Rachel Cohn
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
— Langston Hughes
Life dosent frighten me at all.
— Langston Hughes
Suicide Note:The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
-Langston Hughes — Kay Redfield Jamison
I asked you, baby,If you understood-
You told me that you didn't,
But you thought you would. — Langston Hughes
I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
— 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
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
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
if you're going to use the word 'dream' in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.
— Jewelle L. Gomez
I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
— Langston Hughes
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
— Langston Hughes
I am that rose that grew from concrete, I am the ENTIRE mother to son Langston Hughes poem. And I'm still climbing ...
— Jaha Knight
God in his infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-
So when my actions are stupid
They hardly take God by surprise. — 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
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
— 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
A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader's mind gave it life.
— Elizabeth Langston
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams ...
— Langston Hughes
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,
— 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
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
— Langston Hughes
Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
— Langston Hughes
Whatever life throws at you, you must keep on keeping on.
— J.D. Langston
Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid. — Langston Hughes
I think it must be one of those things where no one's wrong and everybody loses.
— Elizabeth Langston
Violent anger makes me physically ill.
— Langston Hughes