More quotes by Langston Hughes

"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."
"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."
"Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-"
"Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly."