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Poets. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. Langston Hughes quotes from his poems about dreams. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing. Langston HughesMy chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman.
One drop–you are a Negro!
Langston HughesIt’s such a Bore Being always Poor. Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Langston HughesViolent anger makes me physically ill. Langston HughesMy writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people – the beauty within themselves.Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.Yet the ivory gods, and the ebony gods, and the gods of diamond-jade, are only silly puppet gods that people themselves have made.-.O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people’s problems were worse than ours.Negroes – Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day – They change their mind.Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. Langston Hughes (2001).
Or does it explode?If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.I was a victim of a stereotype.
… Or does it explode?When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himselfI dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Langston HughesHumor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it. I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn’t lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.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.Let the rain kiss you. Langston HughesTo my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white,’ hidden in the aspirations of his people, to ‘Why should I want to be white? But here in the United States, the word Negro is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. Langston HughesI tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Here’s a selection of Langston Hughes Quotes, covering topics such as holding fast to your dreams, inpiration, poems, poetry and the big sea.We really hope you enjoy these quotes and that they give you something to think about.Japan is a country with centuries of deep culture and thoughtful philosophy to draw inspirational…Sometimes life just ain't easy. Or fester like a sore– And then run? Langston HughesVery early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia and that the Jewish people’s problems were worse than ours. . Langston HughesBelieving everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.
Tomorrow is another day.