Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
Langston Hughes
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Joplin
Missouri
James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
Ends
Nothing
Soft
Poem
Began
Friend
Loved
Went
Away
More quotes by Langston Hughes
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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
There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
Langston Hughes
LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
Langston Hughes
Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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 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
There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
Langston Hughes
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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
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
The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.
Langston Hughes
Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
Langston Hughes
It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . 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? I am a Negro - and beautiful!
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
I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
Langston Hughes
To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
Langston Hughes
Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
Langston Hughes
