320 Quotes by Langston Hughes

I got the Weary Blues And I can’t be satisfied.

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.

That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.

Good evening, daddy! Ain’t you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.

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

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath – America will be!

I’ve been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between ‘em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin’, stop lovin’, stop livin’ – But I don’t care! I’m still here!

Gather up In the arms of your love – Those who expect No love from above.