Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
LANGSTON HUGHESHumor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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There is no color line in art.
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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.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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.
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This 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.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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.
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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.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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