Langston Hughes

Quotes

• “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 h...”
• “Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves ...”
• “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”
• “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.”
• “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
• “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
• “Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me die.”
• “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.”
• “Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”
• “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
• “Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.”
• “Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.”
• “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
• “Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.”
• “Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”