Quote

Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.

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
Star
Reach
Hand
Stars
Hands
Take

More quotes by Langston Hughes

Image
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
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
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
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
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
Langston Hughes
Image
Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.
Langston Hughes
Image
Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
Langston Hughes
Image
Money and art are far apart.
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
Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
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
They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.
Langston Hughes
Image
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?
Langston Hughes
Image
To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
Langston Hughes
Image
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.
Langston Hughes
Image
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
Langston Hughes
Image
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Image
For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
Langston Hughes
Image
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
Langston Hughes
Image
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
Langston Hughes