Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

"Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly."
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"Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly."
Langston Hughes
"Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid."
Langston Hughes The Collected Poems
"Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven."
Langston Hughes
"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."
Langston Hughes
"I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn I dream a world where all Will know sweet freedom's way, Where greed no longer saps the soul Nor avarice blights our day. A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the earth And every man is free, Where wretchedness will hang its head And joy, like a pearl, Attends the needs of all mankind- Of such I dream, my world!"
Langston Hughes
"I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong. Tomorrow,I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me,"Eat in the kitchen,"Then. Besides,They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed--I, too, am America."
Langston Hughes
"I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books — where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas."
Langston Hughes
"My old man's a white old man And my old mother's black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mother And wished she were in hell,I'm sorry for that evil wish And now i wish her well My old man died in a fine big house My Ma died in a shack. I wonder were i'm going to die,Being neither white nor black?"
Langston Hughes
"People up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled, but determined not to be wholly beaten, buying furniture on the installment plan, filling the house with roomers to help pay the rent, hoping to get a new suit for Easter—and pawning that suit before the Fourth of July."
Langston Hughes
"When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
Langston Hughes
"“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”"
Langston Hughes The Collected Poems
"“Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.”"
Langston Hughes
"I like to work, read, learn, and understand life."
Langston Hughes
"I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
Langston Hughes
"God in his infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise."
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 stay cool, and dig all jive,That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return."
Langston Hughes
"Good morning, daddy!Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred?Listen closely:You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a -You think It's a happy beat?Listen to it closely:Ain't you heardsomething underneathlike a -What did I say?Sure,I'm happy!Take it away!Dream Boogie Hey, pop!Re-bop!Mop!Y-e-a-h!"
Langston Hughes
"What happens to a dream deferred?"
Langston Hughes
"Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding,Each detail minding,Old Walt went seeking And finding."
Langston Hughes
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