Langston Hughes

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

"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 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 dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly."

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

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

"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life 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."

"Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon."

"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."

"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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