Langston Hughes Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Dream, Dry Up

  "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)

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

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

• Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed -
  Let it be that great strong land of love
  Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
  That any man be crushed by one above.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Strong, Kings

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.131, University of Missouri Press

• A world I dream where black or white,
  Whatever race you be,
  Will share the bounties of the Earth
  And every man is free.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Men, Race

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.259, University of Missouri Press

• A dream deferred is a dream denied.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Denied

  "John B. King and Jidenna: Stop the assault on the American dream" by John B. King and Jidenna, edition.cnn.com. August 3, 2017.

• What 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?

  Langston Hughes

  Running, Dream, Sweet

  "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)

• Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, America, Used

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.131, University of Missouri Press

• I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Joy, Needs

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.259, University of Missouri Press

• Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Stars, Clouds

  Langston Hughes (2011). “The Dream Keeper and Other Poems”, p.76, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• What happens to a dream deferred?

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Happens

  "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)

• Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Cat, Daddy

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

• Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Morning, Thinking

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.27, University of Missouri Press

• Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a - You think It's a happy beat? Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard something underneath like a - What did I say? Sure, I'm happy! Take it away! Dream Boogie Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop! Y-e-a-h!

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Morning, Thinking

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1951-1967”, p.27, University of Missouri Press

• You and I By Henry Alford My hand is lonely for your clasping, dear; My ear is tired waiting for your call. I want your strength to help, your laugh to cheer; Heart, soul and senses need you, one and all. I droop without your full, frank sympathy; We ought to be together—you and I; We want each other so, to comprehend The dream, the hope, things planned, or seen, or wrought. Companion, comforter and guide and friend, As much as love asks love, does thought ask thought. Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly, We ought to be together, you and I.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Lonely, Cheer

• Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, New York, Tunnels

  Langston Hughes (2002). “Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”

• There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Certain, Amount

  Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.270, Vintage

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