Quotes of Langston Hughes - somelinesforyou

“ I have personally the greatest respect for sincere religionists, but none whatsoever for the professional racketeers in religion, nor for those who use religion as an anti-Negro, anti-democratic weapon for thwarting the progress of the common man. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me. ”

- Langston Hughes

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

- Langston Hughes

“ 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

“ Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Langston Hughes

“ Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. ”

- 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

“ I, too, am America. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ I will not take “but” for an answer. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music, and death a note unsaid. ”

- Langston Hughes

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

- Langston Hughes

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

- Langston Hughes

“ 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

“ The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ 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

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

- Langston Hughes

“ Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamondjade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a brokenwinged bird, That cannot fly. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a brokenwinged bird that cannot fly. ”

- 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

“ Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Harlem 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
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