Langston Hughes Quotes

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

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.

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.

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

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

A dream deferred is a dream denied.

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on

Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.

I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind.

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.