Langston Hughes Quotes

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

Good morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?Listen closely:You'll hear their feetBeating out and beating out a -You thinkIt's a happy beat?Listen to it closely:Ain't you heardsomething underneathlike a -What did I say?Sure,I'm happy!Take it away!Dream BoogieHey, pop!Re-bop!Mop!Y-e-a-h!

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

People up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled, but determined not to be wholly beaten, buying furniture on the installment plan, filling the house with roomers to help pay the rent, hoping to get a new suit for Easter—and pawning that suit before the Fourth of July.

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

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

I will take your heart.I will take your soul out of your bodyAs though I were God.I will not be satisfiedWith the little words you say to me.I will not be satisfiedWith the touch of your handNor the sweet of your lips alone.I will take your heart for mine.I will take your soul.I will be God when it comes to you.

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

Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding,Each detail minding,Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Hold fast to dreamsfor if dreams dielife is a broken-winged birdthat can not fly.Hold fast to dreamsfor when dreams golife is a barren fieldfrozen with snow.