28 ordspråk av Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
I will not take "but" for an answer
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind
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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
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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.
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Uncle Willy's Chocolate Factory ... with lots of help from really good assistants.
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We have this exhibit of black collectibles, all donated, ... Soon we are going to change this out for an exhibit about the home itself.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives . . . Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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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
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? . . . Or does it explode?
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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