Langston Hughes Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Dream, Dry Up

  "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)

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

  Langston Hughes

  Sweet, Humble, Mind

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.199, University of Missouri Press

• I will not take "but" for an answer.

  Langston Hughes

  Attitude, Answers, Literature

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, University of Missouri

• It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

  Langston Hughes

  Literature, Poor, Bores

  Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.130, Vintage

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

  Langston Hughes

  Color, Racism, Poetry

  Langston Hughes (2002). “Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”

• Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Cat, Daddy

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

• I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

  Langston Hughes

  Literature, Satisfied, Weary

  "The Weary Blues" l. 27 (1926)

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