We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
LANGSTON HUGHESWe Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
LANGSTON HUGHESThis 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 HUGHESLife is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
LANGSTON HUGHESThere is no color line in art.
LANGSTON HUGHESFolks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
LANGSTON HUGHESHumor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
LANGSTON HUGHESIt has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
LANGSTON HUGHESLike a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
LANGSTON HUGHESLooks 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 HUGHESMoney and art are far apart.
LANGSTON HUGHESPolitics 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 HUGHESLet the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESI have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
LANGSTON HUGHESThere’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
LANGSTON HUGHESKeep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
LANGSTON HUGHESI’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