"Good morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?Listen closely:You'll hear their feetBeating out and beating out a -You...












What happens to a dream deferred?
More Langston Hughes quotes
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
"I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and sank.
"I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance o...
"Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.
"Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.
"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
"LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.
"Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding,Each detail minding,Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.
"Out of love,No regrets--Though the goodnessBe wasted forever.Out of love,No regrets--Though the returnBe never.
"The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water.
"Looks like what drives me crazyDon't have no effect on you--But I'm gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too.
"Hold fast to dreamsfor if dreams dielife is a broken-winged birdthat can not fly.Hold fast to dreamsfor when dreams golife is a barren fieldfrozen wit...