320 Quotes by Langston Hughes

The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.

Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.

When it is not on the side of civil rights, then the law is not right, it is white.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

A community of hands to help- / Thus the dream becomes not one man’s dream alone, / But a community dream.