Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
Langston Hughes
Perseverance, Determination, Resilience, Encouragement, Metaphor
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More Langston Hughes Quotes
“I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!” Langston Hughes
Love, Jealousy, Relationships, Humor, Self-preservation
Langston Hughes Love, Jealousy, Relationships, Humor, Self-preservation“Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.” Langston Hughes
Life, Perseverance, Opportunity, Personal Journey, Metaphorical Imagery
Langston Hughes Life, Perseverance, Opportunity, Personal Journey, Metaphorical Imagery“People up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled, but determined not to be wholly beaten, buying furniture on the installment plan, filling the house with roomers to help pay the rent, hoping to get a new suit for Easter – and pawning that suit before the Fourth of July.” Langston Hughes
Struggle, Resilience, Poverty, Hope, American Life
Langston Hughes Struggle, Resilience, Poverty, Hope, American Life“And then the wall rose, Rose slowly, Slowly, Between me and my dream. Rose slowly, slowly, Dimming, Hiding, The light of my dream. Rose until it touched the sky – The wall.” Langston Hughes
Dreams Deferred, Obstacles, Metaphor, Social Barriers, Poetic Imagery
Langston Hughes Dreams Deferred, Obstacles, Metaphor, Social Barriers, Poetic Imagery“We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.” Langston Hughes
Hope, Resilience, Freedom, Personal Empowerment, Future Vision
Langston Hughes Hope, Resilience, Freedom, Personal Empowerment, Future Vision“I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin' – But I don't care! I'm still here!” Langston Hughes
Resilience, Perseverance, Adversity, Defiance, Survival
Langston Hughes Resilience, Perseverance, Adversity, Defiance, Survival“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
Racial Solidarity, Social Justice, Cultural Comparison, Empathy, Shared Struggle
Langston Hughes Racial Solidarity, Social Justice, Cultural Comparison, Empathy, Shared Struggle“My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.” Langston Hughes
Writing, Representation, African American, Cultural Narrative, Social Documentation
Langston Hughes Writing, Representation, African American, Cultural Narrative, Social Documentation“The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.” Langston Hughes
Nature, Tranquility, Beauty, Imagery, Personification
Langston Hughes Nature, Tranquility, Beauty, Imagery, Personification“If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.” Langston Hughes
Legacy, Art, Youth, Racial Pride, Support For Creativity
Langston Hughes Legacy, Art, Youth, Racial Pride, Support For Creativity“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.” Langston Hughes
Rivers, Heritage, Depth, Experience, Cultural Identity
Langston Hughes Rivers, Heritage, Depth, Experience, Cultural Identity“Cora was like a tree – once rooted, she stood, in spite of storms and strife, wind, and rocks, in the earth.” Langston Hughes
Resilience, Strength, Nature Metaphor, Character Description, Perseverance
Langston Hughes Resilience, Strength, Nature Metaphor, Character Description, Perseverance“Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first – before it boomerangs.” Langston Hughes
Humor, Self-deprecation, Human Nature, Social Observation, Wit
Langston Hughes Humor, Self-deprecation, Human Nature, Social Observation, Wit“Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else’s Cake – And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.” Langston Hughes
Freedom, Empowerment, Metaphor, Social Justice, Equality
Langston Hughes Freedom, Empowerment, Metaphor, Social Justice, Equality“Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.” Langston Hughes
Religion, Racism, Justice, Social Critique, Righteous Anger
Langston Hughes Religion, Racism, Justice, Social Critique, Righteous Anger“That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.” Langston Hughes
Justice, Racial Inequality, Awareness, Social Critique, Blindness
Langston Hughes Justice, Racial Inequality, Awareness, Social Critique, Blindness“Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.” Langston Hughes
Art, Race, Identity, Creativity, Cultural Heritage
Langston Hughes Art, Race, Identity, Creativity, Cultural Heritage“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.” Langston Hughes
Life, Death, Music, Metaphor, Philosophical Reflection
Langston Hughes Life, Death, Music, Metaphor, Philosophical Reflection