"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

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Quotes by 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 (Brainyquote.com 1)


"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes  (Brainyquote.com 1) 

"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."
-Langston Hughes  (Brainyquote.com 1) 


"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  (Brainyquote.com 1) 


"I will not take "but" for an answer."
-Langston Hughes  (Brainyquote.com 1) 


"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  (Brainyquote.com 1) 

"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."
-Langston Hughes  (Brainyquote.com 1)


"Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind."
-Langston Hughes  (Brainyquote.com 1)




"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
-Langston Hughes 
(Brainyquote.com 1) 


"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 
(Brainyquote.com 1) 



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