Langston Hughes Quotes

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

-Langston Hughes

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

-Langston Hughes

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people – the beauty within themselves.

-Langston Hughes

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

-Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

-Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

-Langston Hughes

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

-Langston Hughes

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

-Langston Hughes

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

-Langston Hughes

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

-Langston Hughes

I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.

-Langston Hughes

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

-Langston Hughes

Writing is like travelling. It’s wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

-Langston Hughes

It’s such a Bore Being always Poor.

-Langston Hughes

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