1. “When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.” ― Langston Hughes
2. “Writing is like traveling. It’s wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.” ― Langston Hughes
3. “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!” ― Langston Hughes
4. “In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.” ― Langston Hughes
5. “The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.” ― Langston Hughes
6. “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” – Langston Hughes
7. “I will not take ‘but’ for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy’s ‘but’ too long.” – Langston Hughes
8. “A world I dream where black or white,/ Whatever race you be,/ Will share the bounties of the Earth/ And every man is free.” ― Langston Hughes
9. “Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.” ― Langston Hughes
10. “Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.” ― Langston Hughes
11. “A dream deferred is a dream denied.” ― Langston Hughes
12. “Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people — the beauty within themselves.” ― Langston Hughes
13. “When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself.” ― Langston Hughes
14. “I look at my own body/ With eyes no longer blind-/ And I see that my own hands can make/ The world that’s in my mind.” ― Langston Hughes
15. “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.” ― Langston Hughes
16. “I must never write when I do not want to write.” ― Langston Hughes
17. “Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it … what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.” ― Langston Hughes
18. “Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.” ― Langston Hughes
19. “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.” ― Langston Hughes
20. “Sometimes when I’m lonely,/ Don’t know why,/ Keep thinkin’ I won’t be lonely/ By and by.” ― Langston Hughes
21. “Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break” – Langston Hughes
22. “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” ― Langston Hughes
23. “Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people—the beauty within themselves.” ― Langston Hughes
24. “Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.” ― Langston Hughes
25. “Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.” ― Langston Hughes
26. “The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.” – Langston Hughes
27. “I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?” ― Langston Hughes
28. “I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.” ― Langston Hughes
29. “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.” ― Langston Hughes
30. “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.” ― Langston Hughes
