Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
LANGSTON HUGHESOut of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
-
-
Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
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.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
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 -
Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
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 -
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.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
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.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
LANGSTON HUGHES






