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.

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• Langston Hughes:

  Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

• Langston Hughes:

  Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or

• Langston Hughes:

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

• Langston Hughes:

  I will not take 'but' for an answer.

• Langston Hughes:

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

• Langston Hughes:

  My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

• Langston Hughes:

  Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

• Langston Hughes:

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

• Langston Hughes:

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

• Langston Hughes:

  I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.