320 Quotes by Langston Hughes

It’s such a Bore Being always Poor.

I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.

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

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.

I loved my friend He went away from me There’s nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else’s Cake – And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.