"I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me."

- Langston Hughes

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

- Langston Hughes

""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

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

- Langston Hughes

"Cheap little rhymes, a cheap little tune, are sometimes as dangerous as a sliver of the moon."

- Langston Hughes