Langston Hughes: Quotes
- Democracy
I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me. - Dreams and Dreamers
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
. . .
Or does it explode? - Race and Ethnic Heritage
“It's powerful,” he said.
“What?”
“That one drop of Negro blood—because just one drop of black blood makes a man colored. One drop—you are a Negro!”: Simple Takes a Wife