Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Langston Hughes

Quote by Langston Hughes

“Writing is the urge to tell folks about it. About what? About what hurts you inside. Colored folks, through the sheer fact of being colored, have got plenty hurting them inside. You see, we, too, are one of those minority races the newspapers are always talking about. Except that we are here in America, not in Europe, fourteen million of us--a rather large minority, but still a minority. Now, what's hurting us? Well, Jim Crow is hurting us. Ghettos, and segregation, and lack of jobs is hurting us. Signs up: COLORED TRADE NOT DESIRED, and dirty names such as the Jews know under Hitler hurt us. So those of us who are writers have plenty to tell the world about. To us democracy is a paradox, full of contradictions.”

Quote by Langston Hughes

Book:Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings
Create image

Work

Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes

American poet, writer, playwright, editor, and actor. Langston Hughes is one of the most prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance, known for his poetry and prose. His works often explore themes of race, class, and identity, and have been beloved by readers. more

You May Also Like

“Then, taking his hat and shoving it onto his head, he would rush out into the mass of busy people and all at once look nothing at all like Father anymore: in fact, if it were not for the particular way his hat had been squished ever since one of her wooden animals sat on it, Shelley would hardly have been able to tell his brown-coated figure from anyone else’s.”

WorkSocietyIdentityBusyFathersMeaninglessnessCorporate LifeBusy People
Book:The Shivering Ground & Other Stories
Create image

“I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to take and how far to walk; we must find our own way, what is right for one may not be for another. There is no single right way to deal with late stage cancer, to live life or approach death, or to walk an old mission trail.”

LoveLifeInspirationalGodChristianSpiritualDeathLife LessonsFaithSpiritualityHopeFearLife QuotesLove QuotesCourageStrengthSelf HelpHealthSelf LoveWalkingWisdom QuotesLife And LivingSelf ImprovementEmpowermentCancerIllnessHappySelf ConfidenceWell BeingFaith QuotesWellnessHope QuotesCourage QuotesFear QuotesDeath QuotesWellbeingAdversity QuotesStrength QuotesStrength Through AdversityEmpowering QuotesWalkGods GraceGod S LoveGod S GraceFaith In YourselfStrength And CourageStrength Of SpiritStrength Of WillAdvice For Daily LivingHappy QuotesStrength Of MindWalkerIllness And Hope
Book:The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
Create image

“Lo sfruttamento può riguardare qualunque ambito lavorativo. Il fatto che appaia peggiore quando si parla di sex work è indicativo dell'atteggiamento ambivalente che abbiamo nei confronti del sesso: considerato basso e sporco da un lato, glorificato e santificato dall'altro. Fare un pompino per 5 euro sembra più grave che raccogliere le fragole per 3 euro l'ora. Ma lo sfruttamento è sempre sfruttamento.”

SexWorkFeminismWomanAnthropologySex WorkFemminismoAntropologiaSex WorkersSex Worker
Book:Sex work is work
Create image

“People ridiculed me. 'What on each are you doing?' they asked. 'Why are you working so hard?' They didn't understand that driving that tractor was the only freedom I had, my only respite from the orders and insults that assaulted us day in and day out. So no, I wasn't crazy. Work was my only refuge. And I just enjoyed driving that tractor.”

LifeJoyPurposeWorkSocialism
Book:A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Create image