Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hugheswas an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 February 1902
CityJoplin, MO
CountryUnited States of America
silly ivory people
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
country race people
It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
love-is people heaven
To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
fall love-is people
Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
music people pulse
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
giving people doe
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
freedom people needs
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.
christian nice people
Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.
wedding people soul
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
amazed chosen dylan work
I am amazed that my work of Dylan was chosen as his portrait,
chocolate factory good help lots uncle
Uncle Willy's Chocolate Factory ... with lots of help from really good assistants.
crust dream dreams dry happens heavy lead maybe raisin rotten sore stink sugar
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
dream dry happens raisin
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?
dream dry happens raisin
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? . . . Or does it explode?