I 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 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 HUGHESPolitics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
LANGSTON HUGHESHold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHESI’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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 HUGHESI 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 HUGHESRoad’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
LANGSTON HUGHESOut of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
LANGSTON HUGHESGo home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
LANGSTON HUGHESTo create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
LANGSTON HUGHESThis morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
LANGSTON HUGHESFor my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
LANGSTON HUGHESThere is no color line in art.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
LANGSTON HUGHES