More quotes by Langston Hughes

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
"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."
"Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me die."
"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.-"