Frases de Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes

Fecha de nacimiento: 1. Febrero 1902
Fecha de muerte: 22. Mayo 1967
Otros nombres:لنقستون هیوز,James Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes fue un poeta, novelista y columnista estadounidense afroamericano. Se le conoce más por su vinculación al Renacimiento de Harlem, del que fue uno de sus impulsores.

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Frases Langston Hughes

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

— Langston Hughes

„Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.

Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.“

— Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

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„Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.“

— Langston Hughes

„Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.“

— Langston Hughes
"Dreams," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941)

„Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.“

— Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

„Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.“

— Langston Hughes

„I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.“

— Langston Hughes

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

— Langston Hughes
"A Note on Humor", from The Book of Negro Humor https://books.google.com/books?id=60FkAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Humor+is+laughing+at+what+you+haven%27t+got+when+you+ought+to+have+it.%22, p. vii (1966)

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„What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?“

— Langston Hughes
Context: 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? "Harlem"

„I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.“

— Langston Hughes
Context: 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. "I, Too, Sing America," in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959)

„You are white —
yet a part of me, as I am a part of you.“

— Langston Hughes
Context: You are white — yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That’s American. Sometimes perhaps you don’t want to be a part of me. Nor do I often want to be a part of you. But we are, that’s true! As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me — although you’re older — and white — and somewhat more free. "Theme from English B"

„The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!“

— Langston Hughes
Context: Sure, call me any ugly name you choose — The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!

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