FAMOUS LANGSTON HUGHES QUOTES ABOUT NEGROES

“I, too, sing America.”

“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”

“I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes.”

“Negroes – sweet and docile, meek, humble and kind, Beware the day they change their minds!”

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

“The dream is not dead. It is simply living a new life, in a new form.”

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

“What happens to a dream deferred? Perhaps it sags like a heavy load.”

“There is no sorrow like unto the sorrow of a Negro who has lost his God.”

“I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind?”

“When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself.”

“Negroes, I have realized, are not as happy in Africa as the American Negroes were . . .” ENJOYING NATURE WITH FAMILY QUOTES

“Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.”

“We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain free within ourselves.”

“Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.”

“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.”

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

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

“Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars’ worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.”

“The only way to tell a human being how to do anything is to make it a joke.”

“An artist’s duty is to help save the soul of mankind.”

“I never lose. I either win or learn.”

“I am an American. Not a Negro painter.”