Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hugheswas an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 February 1902
CityJoplin, MO
CountryUnited States of America
attitude answers
I will not take "but" for an answer.
happiness laughter humor
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
music people pulse
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
beer likes whiskey
Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
kissing rivers faces
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
ends my-friends
I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
dream happens
What happens to a dream deferred?
cake
Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
morning spring faces
I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.
inspirational-life lying half
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
jesus texas self
Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
sunset sleep new-orleans
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. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
summer winter giving
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
eggs patient life-is
Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake