Langston Hughes
Poet
1902-02-01 – 1967-05-22
Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, and playwright associated with the Harlem Renaissance. His work helped define modern African American literature in the twentieth century.
Quotes by Langston Hughes
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I will take your heart.I will take your soul out of your bodyAs though I were God.I will not be satisfiedWith the little words you say to me.I will not be satisfiedWith the touch of your handNor the sweet of your lips alone.I will take your heart for mine.I will take your soul.I will be God when it comes to you.
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I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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God in his infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take God by surprise.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Hold fast to dreamsfor if dreams dielife is a broken-winged birdthat can not fly.Hold fast to dreamsfor when dreams golife is a barren fieldfrozen with snow.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive,That's the way I stay alive.My motto, as I live and learn, isDig and be dugIn return.
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Good morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?Listen closely:You'll hear their feetBeating out and beating out a -You thinkIt's a happy beat?Listen to it closely:Ain't you heardsomething underneathlike a -What did I say?Sure,I'm happy!Take it away!Dream BoogieHey, pop!Re-bop!Mop!Y-e-a-h!
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Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding,Each detail minding,Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.
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Out of love,No regrets--Though the goodnessBe wasted forever.Out of love,No regrets--Though the returnBe never.
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Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.
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What happens to a dream deferred?
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Looks like what drives me crazyDon't have no effect on you--But I'm gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too.
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Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me die.
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I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and sank.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.
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