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Langston Hughes Quotes - Page 6

As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.

Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.41, University of Missouri Press

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.

Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.121, Vintage

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

Langston Hughes (1995). “Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62”, p.5, University of Illinois Press

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.237, University of Missouri Press

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

Langston Hughes (2002). “Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”

While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.

Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.77, University of Missouri Press

Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.

Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.72, University of Missouri Press

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.180, University of Missouri Press

Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.

Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.171, University of Missouri Press

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 (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.156, University of Missouri Press

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.116, University of Missouri Press

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.75, University of Missouri Press

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.380, University of Missouri Press

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.60, University of Missouri Press