“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
"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
"Cheap little rhymes, a cheap little tune, are sometimes as dangerous as a sliver of the moon."
- Langston Hughes
Creativity
"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
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity