Langston Hughes Quotes

Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon.

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 load. Or does it explode?

If I were marooned on a desert island...I would miss...Jackie Ormes's cute drawings

Believing everything she read
In the daily news,
(No in-between to choose)
She thought that only
One side won,
Not that BOTH
Might lose.

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

"How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.

~ "Sea Calm

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.

You talk like they don’t kick dreams around downtown.

Out of love,
No regrets — Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.

Out of love,
No regrets — Though the return
Be never.

I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain — All, all the stretch of these great green states — And make America again!

Gather up In the arms of your love — Those who expect No love from above.

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.

The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.