320 Quotes by Langston Hughes

There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

Uncle Willy's Chocolate Factory ... with lots of help from really good assistants.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head-- So I don't dare start thinking in the morning.

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.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

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.

Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.

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.