I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to t... - Langston Hughes

"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."

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

"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'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."