Langston Hughes Quotes
Most popular Langston Hughes Quotes
Money and art are far apart.
She wears her morals like a loose garment.
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Humour is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why democracy means Everybody but me.
When people care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.
In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan.
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
De railroad bridge's A sad song in de air. Every time de trains pass I wants to go somewhere.
A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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?
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it . . . what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy.
