320 Quotes by Langston Hughes

It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.

...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,....

The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.

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

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams...

Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.