There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
-
-
Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
LANGSTON HUGHES