Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
LANGSTON HUGHESRoad’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
LANGSTON HUGHESAn artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
LANGSTON HUGHESNegro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
LANGSTON HUGHESNever look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
LANGSTON HUGHESSometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
LANGSTON HUGHESPeace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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 HUGHESLife is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
LANGSTON HUGHESBooks -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
LANGSTON HUGHESO, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
LANGSTON HUGHESMoney and art are far apart.
LANGSTON HUGHESLet the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESGo home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
LANGSTON HUGHESI tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
LANGSTON HUGHESWell, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
LANGSTON HUGHES