“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes Quotes
1901 – 1967
American poet and writer of the Harlem Renaissance, known for poems such as 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Harlem'.
20 quotesAbout Langston Hughes on Wikipedia
“They'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed — I, too, am America.”
“I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.”
“Serve — and hate will die unborn. Love — and chains are broken.”
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
“I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me.”
“Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.”
“I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.”
“My motto, As I live and learn, is: Dig And Be Dug In Return.”
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
“I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.”
“It's not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age.”
