Langston HughesBecause my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do … ▶373DeathHumorSadness
Langston HughesLife is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Poems, 1951-1967, p.141, University of Missouri Press374LifeTruth
Langston HughesI asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Poems, 1951-1967, p.237, University of Missouri P… ▶374Thought
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 Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). The Collected Wor… ▶364Life
Langston HughesIt is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering I want to be white, hidden in the aspirations of his people, to Why sho… ▶331Humanity
Langston HughesThere is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swe… ▶331DeathLove
Langston HughesI wish the rent Was heaven sent. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950, p.31, University of Missouri Press365Death
Langston HughesNever look for a worm in the apple of your eye.376Reading
Langston HughesI will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long. ✨ Langston Hughes (2002). The Early Simple Stories, University of Missouri354Reflection
Langston HughesI swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me. ✨ The Black Man Speaks l. 1 (1943)355Hope
Langston HughesYour explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple. ✨ Langston Hughes (2015). The Best of Simple, p.119, Hill and Wang322Reading
Langston HughesWhiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better. ✨ Langston Hughes (2015). The Best of Simple, p.2, Hill and Wang355Truth
Langston HughesI'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?334Thought
Langston HughesI've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates … ▶335Humanity
Langston HughesHumor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. ✨ Langston Hughes (2002). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and wor… ▶335HumorPolitics
Langston HughesKeep your hand on the plow. Hold on. ✨ Langston Hughes (2011). Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, p.295, Vintage379Truth
Langston HughesMy seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.357Humanity
Langston HughesMost musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness. ✨ Langston Hughes, Steven C. Tracy (20… ▶281Humanity
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 Hughes (2002). Essays on art, race, p… ▶336Politics
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 are not, it d… ▶292HumanityHumorPolitics
Langston HughesPleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding. ✨ Langston Hughes (2011). Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, p.100, Vinta… ▶314Thought
Langston HughesNegro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not… ▶347Reading
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 Hughes… ▶325PoliticsReading
Langston HughesI 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 Hughes (2001). The Co… ▶303Humanity
Langston HughesLet the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ✨ Langston Hughes (2015). Sail Away, p.25, Simon and Schus… ▶348Reading
Langston HughesLife for me ain't been no crystal stair ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940, p.60, University of Missouri Press337LifeSadness
Langston HughesI will not take but for an answer. ✨ Langston Hughes (2002). The Early Simple Stories, University of Missouri282Reading
Langston HughesFolks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Poems, 1951-1967, p.41, University of M… ▶282Death
Langston HughesWhy should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful! ✨ Nation, 23 June 1926304Life
Langston HughesLet the rain sing you a lullaby. ✨ Langston Hughes (2015). Sail Away, p.25, Simon and Schuster349Truth
