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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

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.

Langston Hughes

My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.

Langston Hughes

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Langston Hughes

Violent anger makes me physically ill.

Langston Hughes

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Langston Hughes

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Langston Hughes

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Langston Hughes

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Langston Hughes

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Langston Hughes

I will not take 'but' for an answer.

Langston Hughes

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Langston Hughes

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

Langston Hughes

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

Langston Hughes

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Langston Hughes

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

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.

Langston Hughes

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

Langston Hughes