Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
LANGSTON HUGHESWell, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhy should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
LANGSTON HUGHESThe rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
LANGSTON HUGHESLife dosent frighten me at all.
LANGSTON HUGHESFolks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
LANGSTON HUGHESI 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 HUGHESEverything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
LANGSTON HUGHESHang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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 HUGHESIt has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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 HUGHESWhen peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
LANGSTON HUGHESThere’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
LANGSTON HUGHESI am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
LANGSTON HUGHESPleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
LANGSTON HUGHESHold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES