Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHESPeace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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