More from 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 HughesLangston Hughes We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Life dosent frighten me at all.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes We 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 HughesLangston 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 HughesLangston Hughes Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon In art, it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.
Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig Wittgenstein Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order.
Tutu DesmondTutu Desmond The more I write about us, the more our love feels like art.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Some thunders are meant to mould your heart into art.
Safna SulaimanSafna Sulaiman Art is what keeps humans, human.
Kanika ChughKanika Chugh No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Art speaks to me through you but words have no ears.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres