One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help. Langston Hughes More Quotes by Langston Hughes More Quotes From Langston Hughes The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it. Langston Hughes things-donedoneway Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes changeinspirationallove A world I dream where black or white, Langston Hughes racedreammen I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Langston Hughes tiredwaitingbeautiful When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself Langston Hughes menworldfirsts I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America. Langston Hughes strongbrotherbeautiful Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Langston Hughes strongkingsdream I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread. Langston Hughes freedompeopleneeds 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 determinationwantlife Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. Langston Hughes humblemindsweet What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode? Langston Hughes dry-updreamlove Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star. Langston Hughes starshands Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. Langston Hughes equalityairamerica Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on Langston Hughes togethermorninginspirational 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. Langston Hughes patrioticrealopportunity Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you. Langston Hughes summerrainheart That Justice is a blind goddess Langston Hughes eyewisetwo An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. Langston Hughes black-historyartistinspirational I look at my own body Langston Hughes eyemindhands Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between. Langston Hughes dyinglittlesmean
