Langston Hughes · Skopia

Quotes

10

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen" Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.

Langston Hughes

I, Too · 1926

★ 7.0

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

Harlem · 1951

★ 6.9

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

Langston Hughes

The Black Man Speaks · 1943

★ 6.2

O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land where every man is free.

Langston Hughes

1936

★ 5.5

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Books

3

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

1967★ 6.3

The Ways of White Folks

Langston Hughes

1934★ 6.1

The Sweet Flypaper of Life

Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes

1955★ 4.7