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
dream dry happens raisin
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?
amazed chosen dylan work
I am amazed that my work of Dylan was chosen as his portrait,
wise eye two
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
dream joy world
I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
freedom rocks toes
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
wedding people soul
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
government rights buffalo
If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
dream certain amount
There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
summer rain humor
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
christian nice people
Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.
dream stars dust
Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.
dust rainbow helping
Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.
equality america air
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
freedom people needs
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.