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Langston Hughes quotes

28 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Langston Hughes wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Page 2 of 2.

Is you happy, chile?

— Hager in Langston Hughes, Not Without Laughter (1930), Chapter 22

I'm lonesome inside myself.

— Simple in Langston Hughes, Conversation on the Corner

Everything I do is connected up with my past life,

— Simple in Langston Hughes, Feet Live Their Own Life

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The Big Sea quotes · 8 lines (1940)
The Weary Blues quotes · 9 lines (1926)

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