Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston HughesTeach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
Langston HughesI did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
Langston HughesI have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes