Author: Langston Hughes

Quotes

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

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

- Langston Hughes

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

- Langston Hughes

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

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

- Langston Hughes

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

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

- Langston Hughes

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

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

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Langston Hughes

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

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

- Langston Hughes

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