Langston Hughes America Quotations

This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.

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.

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.