langston hughes

“ I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing not to poetry or fiction. ”

“ I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me...so I wrote a great many poems. ”

“ What happens to a dream deferred? ”

“ Good-morning, Revolution: ”

“ Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon. ”

“ I am so tired of waiting. ”

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

“ If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head - So I don't dare start thinking in the morning. ”

“ The ivory gods, ”

“ Hold fast to dreams ”