Langston Hughes Quotes, Thoughts and Image

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

A dream deferred is a dream denied.

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.

Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.

I 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.

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

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.

I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

O, 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.

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

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.

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!

Road's in front o' me, Nothin' to do but walk.

Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.