Langston Hughes

“I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?”

“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”

“Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.”

“I swear to the Lord, I still can't see why democracy means everybody but me.”

“Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.”

“The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.”

“Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.”

“My motto, as I live and learn, is: Dig and be dug in return.”

“Negroes, sweet and docile, meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day they change their mind.”

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”

“When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself.”