“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that can not fly. Hold fast to dreams for… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams. For when… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.” — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Bow down and pray in fear and trembling, go way back in the dark afraid; or work harder and harder; or stumble… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I’s been livin’ a long time in yesterday, Sandy chile, an’ I knows there ain’t no room in de world fo’ nothin’… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat? — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“As I Grew Older" It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these do not… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that can not fly. Hold fast to dreams for when dreams… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
