“Cheap little rhymes, a cheap little tune, are sometimes as dangerous as a sliver of the moon.”
"I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me."
- Langston Hughes
Awareness
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
- Langston Hughes
Hope
""The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life ... The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds—how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives—and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!""
- Langston Hughes
Inspiration
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
- Langston Hughes
Adversity
"So since i’m still here livin’, i guess I will live on. I could’ve died for love–but for livin’ I was born."
- Langston Hughes
Resilience
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity