- Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
- Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
- Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
- My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
- Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
- In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
- Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people – the beauty within themselves.
- Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
- I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like ‘Tristan,’ goat’s milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike ‘Aida,’ parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.
- Writing is like travelling. It’s wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
- I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
- One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
- When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
- I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.
- I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
15 Great Quotes by Langston Hughes
