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
love eye apples
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
details walt findings
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
beautiful white want
Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!
peaceful soul rust
Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
powerful men blood
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
depressing simple nonsense
Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.
literature weary satisfied
I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
dream cat daddy
Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.
christian doubt atheism
Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
poor bores
It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
beautiful book kansas
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas
silly ivory people
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
love-is people heaven
To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
race minorities helping
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.