Langston Hughes Black Quotations

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

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams...

Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.