Langston Hughes Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

2. Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.

3. Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

4. Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.

5. HarlemWhat 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 load.Or does it explode? The Collected Poems

6. I am so tired of waiting.Aren’t you,for the world to become goodand beautiful and kind?Let us take a knifeand cut the world in two—and see what worms are eatingat the rind. Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings

7. I stay cool, and dig all jive,That's the way I stay alive.My motto, as I live and learn, isDig and be dugIn return.

8. 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.

9. 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. Selected Poems

10. Out of love,No regrets--Though the goodnessBe wasted forever.Out of love,No regrets--Though the returnBe never. Selected Poems

11. Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding,Each detail minding,Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

12. The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water. Selected Poems

13. What happens to a dream deferred?

14. Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-