K Langston Quotes

I would rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ~Lucille Ball ~ K. Langston

Oh, there was no doubt about it, I wanted to fuck her. I wanted to fuck her so bad I couldn't sit properly. I wanted to fuck her, make sweet love to her, do very bad things to her. It was crazy fucking beautiful - the need I had for this woman. ~ K. Langston

CHAPTER 4 WHEN FEAR OUTSHINES COURAGE A secret POV ~ K. Langston

Since the day I met you, I've felt like I could fly. My heart is lighter and when I'm with you, there's no place else I'd rather be. Your beautiful smile and that feisty mouth have brought my dull world back to life. ~ K. Langston

I wanna punch you in the throat right now. Do you think that's sexy? ~ K. Langston

I want to walk through this life with you by my side. Your hand in mine. Forever. ~ K. Langston

Say it. Say your mine, Maddie. You own my heart now, baby. I gotta have yours too. ~ K. Langston

However, I believe everything happens for a reason. There's a reason we met, there's a reason you're here tonight, and there's a reason why I feel the way I do about you. I can't ignore any of that. I won't. I don't fuck around with fate, Maddie. You shouldn't either. ~ K. Langston

Once your heart has been broken, it's never really heals. The wounds may heal, but the scars remain there forever. That delicate tissue must be guarded and protected at all cost. ~ K. Langston

You never know when love will come along and change...everything. ~ K. Langston

Because I wanna make sure you don't belong to anyone else before we move forward. ~ K. Langston

Love is a lot of things. It's a hard place to fall and a soft place to land. It's give and take, push and pull. Love can bring out the absolute best or worst in us. But, when you find a love worth fightin' for, that's true love. And no matter the struggle or compromise, you can't walk away from that. Now ask yourself, is he worth fightin' for? ~ K. Langston

Because this is what love tastes like. Feels like. It's me and you. Together. Just like this. Nothing between us." He lifted his head, holding my gaze. "Except love. ~ K. Langston

Fear is stupid. So are regrets. -Marilyn Monroe ~ K. Langston

As I Grew Older"

It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream.
But it was there then,
In front of me,
Bright like a sun -
My dream.
And then the wall rose,
Rose slowly,
Slowly,
Between me and my dream.
Rose until it touched the sky -
The wall.
Shadow.
I am black.
I lie down in the shadow.
No longer the light of my dream before me,
Above me.
Only the thick wall.
Only the shadow.
My hands!
My dark hands!
Break through the wall!
Find my dream!
Help me to shatter this darkness,
To smash this night,
To break this shadow
Into a thousand lights of sun,
Into a thousand whirling dreams
Of sun! ~ Langston Hughes

I need to do something about college, but I'm not sure what."

"Where have you decided to apply?"

"Nowhere yet. Any time I think about the schools I've visited, I feel overwhelmed. The campuses are so big that I know I'll get lost. I dread making new friends. And the professors acted too busy to deal with someone like me. My parents will be wasting a huge amount of money."

"Your fears are no different than most high school seniors." He studied me thoughtfully. "Must you go to college?"

I opened my mouth to say Of course, I must - and then shut it again. The concept didn't bother me nearly as much as it should have. Skipping college would be crazy. Right? It was hard enough for a disabled person to find a job, but being disabled with no degree would make it hopeless. "I don't have a choice."

"Perhaps you have more choices than you realize. ~ Elizabeth Langston

Words Like Freedom
There are words like Freedom
Sweet and wonderful to say.
On my heartstrings freedom sings
All day everyday.
There are words like Liberty
That almost make me cry.
If you had known what I know
You would know why. ~ Langston Hughes

Unfortunately, now that Langston has a boyfriend again, he has forgotten all about me. ~ Rachel Cohn

Negroes
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble, and kind:
Beware the day
They change their minds!
Wind
In the cotton fields,
Gentle breeze:
Beware the hour
It uproots trees! ~ Langston Hughes

As I learn from you,
I guess you learn
From me
although
You're older
and white
And somewhat more free. ~ Langston Hughes

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be. ~ Langston Hughes

Good people are not that good. To tell the truth, if I were white, no matter how much I loved Negroes, I doubt that I would submit myself to Jim Crow living conditions just to prove my love." "Neither would I," said Simple. "Then you would not be very good, either." "No," said Simple, "but I would be white. ~ Langston Hughes

I will not take 'but' for an answer. ~ Langston Hughes

I will take your heart.
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
I will not be satisfied
With the little words you say to me.
I will not be satisfied
With the touch of your hand
Nor the sweet of your lips alone.
I will take your heart for mine.
I will take your soul.
I will be God when it comes to you. ~ Langston Hughes

Reach Up Your Hand ... and take a star. ~ Langston Hughes

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. ~ Langston Hughes

You don't look like a genie."
"Palazzo pants and sequined vests don't cut it in the United States. ~ Elizabeth Langston

Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace. ~ Langston Hughes

What is the verdict?"

"There is always hope." His face softened. "However, it's unlikely your brain damage will improve."

He'd given me the answer I'd expected and dreaded.

I shut my eyes and sagged into the pillows. I'd braced myself for this result, but I'd wanted a miracle so badly that it was painful to hear the truth.

Sunlight pressed in on me, trying to cheer me up. I would resist a moment longer. This room, the quilt, my closed eyes - they formed a serene barrier against the world, although it wasn't clear to me if I wanted to keep the scary stuff out or the scared me in. ~ Elizabeth Langston

Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants. ~ Langston Hughes

One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help. ~ Langston Hughes

Are you over him?" I asked. We both knew the him I referred to was not Benny, but the him who broke Langston's heart so devastatingly. Langston's first love. "In some ways, I think I'll never be over him," Langston said. "That is such an unsatisfying answer." "That's because you're interpreting it the wrong way. I don't mean it as a wistful, overdramatic declaration. I meant that the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever changed me as a person, in the same way that being your brother reflects and changes how I evolve, and vice versa. The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that." My ~ Rachel Cohn

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

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. ~ Langston Hughes

I am so tired of waiting.
Aren't you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two
and see what worms are eating
at the rind. ~ Langston Hughes

Just because I loves you–
That's de reason why
Ma soul is full of color
Like de wings of a butterfly.

Just because I loves you
That's de reason why
Ma heart's a fluttering aspen leaf
When you pass by. ~ Langston Hughes

I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied. ~ Langston Hughes

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man. ~ Langston Hughes

Because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet. ~ Langston Hughes

2 and 2 are 4.
4 and 4 are 8.
But what would happen
If the last 4 was late?
And how would it be
If one 2 was me?
Or if the first 4 was you
Divided by 2? ~ Langston Hughes

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage. ~ Ben Vereen

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. ~ Langston Hughes

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes. ~ Pearl Cleage

Joe has sense enough to know
He is a god.
So many gods don't know. ~ Langston Hughes

Langston has been in love. Twice. His first big romance ended so badly that he had to leave ~ Rachel Cohn

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come. ~ Langston Hughes

Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit! ~ Langston Hughes

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

my life was only one of countless stories of human pain; that though I had considered myself the prima donna of sufferers, I was simply one of a vast troupe; that darkness indeed descends upon every man and woman, but that moon and stars also shine down upon all.
p 315 ~ Jamie Langston Turner

Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most devastating form. I am aware that, in some minds, this tends to be regarded as a delicate subject. Let me declare very simply that I do not share such a sentiment. There is nothing in the least delicate about the slaughter of innocents. We all subscribe to the lofty notions contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but, for some reason, become suddenly coy and selective when it comes to defending what is obviously the most elementary of these rights, which is the right to life. One of my all-time favourite lines comes from the black American poet Langston Hughes. It reads, simply, 'There is no lavender word for lynch'. ~ Wole Soyinka

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