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

Quote by Langston Hughes

Topics: African American Quotes, Change Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Writers Quotes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up - like a raisin in...

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up - like a raisin in...

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

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

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot...

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot...

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

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

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath- America will be!

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath- America will be!

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that...

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that...

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives....

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives....

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

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

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

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that...

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that...

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the...

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the...

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do....

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do....

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

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

I will not take ut for an answer.

I will not take ut for an answer.

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

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

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

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

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want...

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want...

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also...

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also...

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change...

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change...