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There are 26 quotes for the author Langston Hughes

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Subject: Ambition

A dream deferred is a dream denied.

Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow.

I swear to the Lord
Subject: Equality

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means, Everybody but me.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up - like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags - like a heavy lead.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives . . . Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me.

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.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? . . . Or does it explode?

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