Quotes by Langston Hughes

“Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow”

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

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”

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

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

“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up - like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags - like a heavy lead”

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

“I will not take but for an answer”

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

“But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. Theres a song that says, the time aint long. That song is right. Something has got to change in America—and change soon. We must help that change to come.”

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.

So since Im still here livin,I guess I will live on.I couldve died for love--But for livin I was born.

Humor is laughing at what you havent got when you ought to have it.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.

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