67 result(s) for Langston Hughes Quotes.
"I tire so of hearing people say, / Let things take their course. / Tomorrow is another day. / I do not need my freedom when I'm dead."
"Well, son, I'll tell you: / Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
"Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly."
"What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?"
"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."
"I've known rivers: / I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins."
"Hold fast to dreams, / For if dreams die, / Life is a broken-winged bird, / That cannot fly."
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"I've known rivers: / Ancient, dusky rivers. / My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
"Justice is a blind goddess / Is a thing to which men pay / Devotion. For in peace / She's smilin' and ever gay."
"I've been scarred and battered. / My hopes the wind done scattered. / Snow has friz me, / Sun has baked me, / Looks like between 'em they done / Tried to make me / Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'— / But I don't care! / I'm still here!"
"I have discovered in life / That there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, / If you really want to go."
"I swear to the Lord / I still can't see / Why Democracy means / Everybody but me."
"'Good-mornin', ma'm, / Have you got any copper plates / To sell in this here store?' / 'Yas sir, mistah jangoman; I got some wunnerfull nice ones. Y'all come in, please, an' take a look at em.' / 'I can't come right in, ma'm, but will you please kindly bring some out to the curb?'"
"Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid."
"Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly."
"I have known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins."
"I am ashamed of my country for the way we were treated. It was not the land of the free and the home of the brave for me."
"We know we’re beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries, and the tom-tom laughs. If colored man don’t have a chance, colored woman don’t have none at all."
"Freedom is never given; it is won."
"We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame."
"Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
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"What happens to a dream deferred? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load."
"I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins."
"Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow."
"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you."
"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
"Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had."
"Hitch your wagon to a star."
"I had always heard people talk about the beauty of sunrise, but it became real to me when I viewed a radiant sun rise over the mountains."
"Color, economic systems, social systems, are all meaningless. Why can't we lay people out, not as black or white, not as haves and have-nots, but as superior or inferior?"
"I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe."
"You've taken my blues and gone- You sing 'em on Broadway And you sing 'em in Hollywood Bowl, And you mixed 'em up with symphonies And you Fix it so You don't know me."
"I, too, sing America."
"What happens to a dream deferred?"
"Life is for the living."
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"I loved my friend. He went away from me. There's nothing more to say."
"I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread."
"Literature is a big swamp into which everybody sinks according to his condition or his strength."
"Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard the boogie-woogie rumble of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet beattin' out and beatin' out a - You think it's a happy beat? Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard somethin' underneath like a - What did I say? Sure, I'm happy! Take it away! Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop! Y-e-a-h!"
"I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
"My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind."
"A dream deferred is a dream denied."
"Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
"Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, and splinters, and boards torn up, and places with no carpet on the floor—Bare."
"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
"Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day They change their mind."
"Be present in all things and thankful for all things."
"I've known rivers: ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
"As I grow older, I am more indebted to my mother, because she insisted that I should be put into school - and that I shouldn't do just the easy thing in life."
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby."
"We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries, and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either."
"The calm, cool face of the river asked me for a kiss."
"Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be."
"I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes."
"Mama may have, Papa may have, but God bless the child that's got his own!"
"I am so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?"
"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."
"I wish the rent was heaven-sent."
"Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean—so get yourself a little loving in between."
"Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind."
"I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, Why Democracy means, everybody but me."
"When people care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?"
"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."
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