Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree. Langston Hughes More Quotes by Langston Hughes More Quotes From Langston Hughes I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies. Langston Hughes women wife wish When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left. Langston Hughes corners turns running Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful! Langston Hughes white want beautiful I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied. Langston Hughes weary satisfied literature Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why. Langston Hughes liberty everyday sweet But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come. Langston Hughes song long america It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!" Langston Hughes white beautiful art This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back. Langston Hughes eggs morning two Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- Langston Hughes christian faith god To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven. Langston Hughes love-is heaven people I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems. Langston Hughes cold half jobs Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language. Langston Hughes daddy singing trying I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer. Langston Hughes creative writing believe Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul Langston Hughes rust peaceful soul It's such a Bore Being always Poor. Langston Hughes bores poor literature The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent. Langston Hughes phones death fall Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it. Langston Hughes wheat-fields home rivers Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me Langston Hughes black tree night Life for me ain't been no crystal stair Langston Hughes splinters stairs crystals How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm Langston Hughes sea today water
