Langston Hughes Quotes About Harlem Renaissance
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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?
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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