Langston Hughes - Man Quotes

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The stars went out and so did the moon.
The singer stopped playing and went to bed
While the Weary Blues echoed through his head.
He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.

Langston Hughes
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
….
O, let America be America again—
The land that has never been yet—
And yet must be—
The land where every man is free.
….
America never was America to me.
And yet, I swear this oath—
America will be!

Langston Hughes
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed —
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

Langston Hughes
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek —
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

Langston Hughes
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

Langston Hughes
'It's powerful,' he said.
'What?'
'That one drop of Negro blood—because just one drop of black blood makes a man coloured. One drop—you are a Negro!'

Langston Hughes
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Langston Hughes
Negro blood is sure powerful — because just onedrop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop—you are a Negro!... Black is powerful.

Langston Hughes
Practical man,
He said, Train your head,
Your heart, and your hand.
Your fate is here
Not afar,
So let down your bucket
Where you are.

Langston Hughes
A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man is free

Langston Hughes
When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

Langston Hughes