Quotes By Author: Langston Hughes
“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!”
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“Hold onto your dreams”
“Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding,Each detail minding,Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.”
“Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry–I’ll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me die.”
“I stay cool, and dig all jive,That’s the way I stay alive.My motto, as I live and learn, isDig and be dugIn return.”
“I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn’t,So I jumped in and sank.”
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
“Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.”
“Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.”
“Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-”
“Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.”
“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”