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Langston Hughes quotes

American Poet February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967

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Langston Hughes quote: "Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal..."
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes quote: "Life dosent frighten me at all."
Life dosent frighten me at all. Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes quote: "Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or..."
Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes quote: "I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting..."
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
America is a dream. The poet says it was promises. The people say it is promises—that will come true. The people do not always say things out loud, Nor write them down on paper. The people often hold Great thoughts in their deepest hearts And sometimes only blunderingly express them, Haltingly and stumbling say them, And faultily put them into practice. The people do not always understand each other. But there is, somewhere there, Always the trying to understand, And the trying to say, "You... Langston Hughes
Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a - You think It's a happy beat? Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard something underneath like a - What did I say? Sure, I'm happy! Take it away! Dream Boogie Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop! Y-e-a-h! 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
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness. Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America. 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. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table. When company comes. Nobody'll dare. Say to me,"Eat in the kitchen,"Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am. And be ashamed--I, too, am America. Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes quote: "Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful..."
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas Langston Hughes
Because 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 not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die? Langston Hughes
I'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 when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers:... Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes quote: "Your explanation depresses me," I said."Your nonsense..."
Your explanation depresses me," I said."Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple. Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes quote: "Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the..."
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes quote: "How still, How strangely still. The water is today, It is not..."
How still, How strangely still. The water is today, It is not good. For water. To be so still that way.~ "Sea Calm Langston Hughes

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