"The past has been a mint Of..." - Quote by Langston Hughes

“I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.”

“Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.”

“To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'”

“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.”

“If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present”

“For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with all its blunders and tears, follies and defeats. Yesterday has passed away, beyond my control forever. The other day is tomorrow with all its pitfalls and threats, its dangers and mystery. Until the sun rises again I have no stake in tomorrow, for it is still unborn.”

“They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.”

“If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.”

“I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That's how I saw it, and see it still.”