Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
-
-
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
LANGSTON HUGHES -
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
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.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
LANGSTON HUGHES