Langston Hughes
10 quotes
“The Black Man Speaks,”
“I was so sick last night I Didn't hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn't know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that Almost made me blind. "Morning After," (l. 1”
“Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken”
“Alabama Earth (at Booker Washington 's grave),”
“Song for a Dark Girl”
“The stars went out and so did the moon . The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead. " The Weary Blues ", in The Weary Blues”
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
“The night is beautiful, So are the faces of my people. "My People", in the magazine Poems in Crisis (October 1923); reprinted in The Weary Blues”
“They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed”
“, in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959); it is also often referred to as”