We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Quote by Langston Hughes

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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...

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...

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...

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

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...

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...

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....

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...

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 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.

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that...

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that...

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...

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...

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!

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.

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.

All the fun's in how you say a thing

All the fun's in how you say a thing

Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems.

Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.