Quotes About Langston Hughes Poetry

#1. Out of love,
No regrets
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.
Out of love,
No regrets
Though the return
Be never.

Langston Hughes

#2. LIBERTY!
FREEDOM!
DEMOCRACY!
True anyhow no matter how many
Liars use those words.

Langston Hughes

#3. The sea is a desert of waves,
A wilderness of water.

Langston Hughes

#4. You better hide that heart of yours, Lady Titanos. It won't lead you anywhere you want to go.

Victoria Aveyard

#5. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Langston Hughes

#6. The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.

Walter E. Williams

#7. The soul of India lives in its villages.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. What happens to a dream deferred?

Langston Hughes

#9. Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. 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.

Langston Hughes

#11. For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had to do well in school so I could work. To me, it was like an after-school activity, something to look forward to.

Kyla Pratt

#12. The Dream Keeper
Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.

Langston Hughes

#13. if you're going to use the word 'dream' in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.

Jewelle L. Gomez

#14. I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.

Langston Hughes

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

Langston Hughes

#16. Poetry is the human soul entire
Squeezed like a lemon or a lime,
Drop by drop into atomic words".

Langston Hughes

#17. Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

Langston Hughes