Quotes by : Langston Hughes

I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books....

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

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

Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without....

Good morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?Listen closely:You'll....

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Words Like FreedomThere are words like FreedomSweet and wonderful to say.On my heartstrings freedom singsAll....

God in his infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take God....

I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human....