Life dosent frighten me at all. Langston Hughes More Quotes by Langston Hughes More Quotes From Langston Hughes Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace. Langston Hughes daddy cat dream I’s been livin’ a long time in yesterday, Sandy chile, an’ I knows there ain’t no room in de world fo’ nothin’ mo’n love. I know, chile! Ever’thing there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on yo’ soul. An’ to love sho ‘nough, you got to have a spot in yo’ heart fo’ ever’body – great an’ small, white an’ black, an’ them what’s good an’ them what’s evil – ‘cause love ain’t got no crowded-out places where de good ones stay an’ de bad ones can’t come in. When it gets that way, then it ain’t love. Langston Hughes white yesterday heart I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would. Langston Hughes understood ifs baby There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this 'homeland of the free. Langston Hughes No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech. Langston Hughes And fundamental to love is knowledge, is empathy, is compassion, is knowing another's struggle, if you love someone, you see their worth, you see their dignity. You know that your destiny is interwoven with them. Langston Hughes politics Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughes life-is-a dreams snow life Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. Langston Hughes me smile work life Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying. Langston Hughes go you tired 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 my-life never freedom life The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror. Langston Hughes meaning eyes know people I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet. Langston Hughes me always poetry teacher My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America. Langston Hughes concerned writing life america 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 help great proud children Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours. Langston Hughes me relationship life people Violent anger makes me physically ill. Langston Hughes makes me violent anger I must never write when I do not want to write. Langston Hughes write must never want Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves. Langston Hughes mission artist beauty people I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges. Langston Hughes i-am city simple long
