Langston Hughes Quotes

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

Life, Dreams, Die

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

Nature, Rain, Kiss

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes

Humor, Cool, Rain

Quote

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes

Sun, Dream, Happens

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Langston Hughes

Humor, Laughing, Ought

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

Life, Getting, Almost

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Langston Hughes

Free, Afraid, Artist

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes

Nature, Beauty, Happiness

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
Langston Hughes

Change, Mind, Humble

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes

Care, Soul, Cry

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes

Democracy, Why, Means

I will not take 'but' for an answer.
Langston Hughes

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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

Black, Lives, Color

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes

Life, Dreams, Snow

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 1, 1902

Died: May 22, 1967

Links

Find on Amazon: Langston Hughes

Cite this Page: Citation

Related Authors

Maya Angelou
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Edgar Allan Poe
T. S. Eliot
e. e. cummings
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
More

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us