Langston Hughes Quotes

My motto, As I live and learn, is: Dig And Be Dug In Return.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

You see, unfortunately, I am not black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the United States, the word “Negro” is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown. My father was a darker brown. My mother an olive-yellow.

O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath — America will be!

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose — The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!

O, let America be America again — The land that never has been yet — And yet must be — the land where every man is free.

For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay — Except the dream that's almost dead today.

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek — And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed — Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

If I were marooned on a desert island...I would miss...Jackie Ormes's cute drawings

I was so sick last night I Didn't hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn't know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that Almost made me blind.

While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve — and hate will die unborn. Love — and chains are broken.

Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree.