Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. - Langston Hughes 1 Share Now -
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. - Langston Hughes 2 Share Now -
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. - Langston Hughes 3 Share Now -
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. - Langston Hughes 4 Share Now -
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. - Langston Hughes 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet. - Langston Hughes 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. - Langston Hughes 10 Share Now -
