Langston Hughes: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Looks like what drives me crazy
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too.”

“I stay cool, and dig all jive,
That's the way I stay alive.
My motto,
as I live and learn,
is
Dig and be dug
In return.”

“Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.”

“So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love--
But for livin' I was born.”

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

“To some people
Love is given,
To others
Only Heaven.”

“I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”

“Gather out of star-dust,
Earth-dust,
Cloud-dust,
Storm-dust,
And splinters of hail,
One handful of dream-dust,
Not for sale.”

“… 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,….”

“Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.

Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the return
Be never.”

“I asked you, baby,
If you understood-
You told me that you didn't,
But you thought you would.”

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

“Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.”

“Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on”

“Believing everything she read
In the daily news,
(No in-between to choose)
She thought that only
One side won,
Not that BOTH
Might lose.”

“Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon.”

“I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.”

“How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.

~ "Sea Calm”

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