Langston Hughes Quotes

My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
If ever I cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
And now i wish her well
My old man died in a fine big house
My Ma died in a shack.
I wonder were i'm going to die,
Being neither white nor black?

Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

I wish the rent Was heaven sent.

Gather up In the arms of your love — Those who expect No love from above.

I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.

Impasse

I could tell you
If I wanted to,
What makes me
What I am.

But I don't
Really want to –
And you don't
Give a damn.

I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin' — But I don't care! I'm still here!

What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

Rest at pale evening...
A tall slim tree...
Night coming tenderly
Black like me

Frosting

Freedom
Is just frosting
On somebody else's
Cake — And so must be
Till we
Learn how to
Bake.

Justice

That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain — All, all the stretch of these great green states — And make America again!