Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes Quotes
1902–1967 United States
Langston Hughes (1 February 1902 – 22 May 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, social activist and newspaper columnist.
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39 quotes
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
The night is beautiful,
So are the faces of my people.
Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.
Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.
A certain amount
of nothing
in a dream deferred.
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
There’s a certain
amount of traveling
in a dream deferred.
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
You talk like they
don’t kick dreams
around downtown.
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let America Be America Again (1935)
You are white —
yet a part of me, as I am a part of you.
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Let America Be America Again (1935)
My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return.
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America.
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
The Big Sea (1940)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Langston Hughes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.