Author: Langston Hughes

Quotes

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

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

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

- Langston Hughes

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

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

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

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

- 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.

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

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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