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 HUGHESSummer 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 HUGHESEverybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
LANGSTON HUGHESBooks -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
LANGSTON HUGHESI swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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 HUGHESWe younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
LANGSTON HUGHESCheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
LANGSTON HUGHESReach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
LANGSTON HUGHESWe Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
LANGSTON HUGHESWell, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
LANGSTON HUGHESYet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhy should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
LANGSTON HUGHES