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

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

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

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes

I will not take "but" for an answer.
Langston Hughes

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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

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


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

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes

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

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