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
song america long
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
song pain laughter
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?
song rain sleep
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
song snow darkness
Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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?
barren dreams fast field frozen hold life
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
bird broken cannot dreams fast hold life
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
taken order cities
Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people - but very few photographers can make their prints not only reproductions of the people taken, but a comment upon them - or more, a comment upon their lives - or more still, a comment upon the social order that creates these lives.
believe writing creative
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
race minorities helping
One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.