Quotes by James Langston Hughes

I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!"

Quick, sunrise, come! Sunrise out of Africa, Quick, come!

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in Human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

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

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

Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

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

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

I will not take "but" for an answer.