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Langston Hughes Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“America is a dream.
The poet says it was promises.
The people say it is promises—that will come true.
The people do not always say things out loud,
Nor write them down on paper.
The people often hold
Great thoughts in their deepest hearts
And sometimes only blunderingly express them,
Haltingly and stumbling say them,
And faultily put them into practice.
The people do not always understand each other.
But there is, somewhere there,
Always the trying to understand,
And the trying to say,
‘You are a man. Together we are building our land.’”
— Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes(Vintage Classics)
Tagged: America, Dream, Poet, promises, Thoughts, manhood
“Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.”
— Langston Hughes, The Dream Keeper and Other Poems 1st(first) Edition by Hughes, Langston published by Knopf Books for Young Readers (1996)
Tagged: Dreams, Melodies
“Out of love,
No regrets—
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.

Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the return
Be never.”
— Langston Hughes, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse(Vintage Classics)
Tagged: Love, Regrets, Goodness
“Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.

Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.”
— Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes(Vintage Classics)
Tagged: Dreams
“What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?””
— Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes(Vintage Classics)
Tagged: Dream Deferred, Raisin in the Sun
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
— Langston Hughes, The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14, Autobiography:
Tagged: Life, Want, Dreams, ways in getting where you want to go, Goals, Inspirational, Motivational
“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”
— Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes(Vintage Classics)
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