Quote

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on

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
Good
Revolution
Friend
Morning
Inspirational
Around
Together
Best
Pals
Ever
Gonna

More quotes by Langston Hughes

Image
Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.
Langston Hughes
Image
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
Image
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
Langston Hughes
Image
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
Langston Hughes
Image
Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
Langston Hughes
Image
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
Langston Hughes
Image
Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
Langston Hughes
Image
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes
Image
Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
Langston Hughes
Image
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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
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
Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
Langston Hughes
Image
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
Langston Hughes
Image
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Image
So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
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
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
Langston Hughes
Image
When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.
Langston Hughes
Image
I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
Langston Hughes