Quote

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Langston Hughes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Faith
Jewelry
Christian
Diamond
Ebony
Made
Novelists
Jade
People
Gods
Columnists
Silly
Puppet
God
Ivory
Belief
Puppets
Religious
Playwright

More quotes by Langston Hughes

Image
I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!
Langston Hughes
Image
This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
Langston Hughes
Image
I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
Langston Hughes
Image
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes
Image
I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
Langston Hughes
Image
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
Langston Hughes
Image
Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
Langston Hughes
Image
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
Langston Hughes
Image
Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
Langston Hughes
Image
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
Image
Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
Langston Hughes
Image
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
Image
As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.
Langston Hughes
Image
I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
Langston Hughes
Image
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
Langston Hughes
Image
The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
Langston Hughes
Image
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
Langston Hughes
Image
I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
Langston Hughes
Image
One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
Langston Hughes
Image
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
Langston Hughes