African-American History

Langston Hughes Quotes

February 29, 1936.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection.

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 lead.
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
I swear to the Lord,I still can't see, why democracy means, everybody but me.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

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