Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged... - Langston Hughes

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

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

"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."

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