320 Quotes by Langston Hughes

A lion in a zoo, / Shut up in a cage, / Lives a life / Of smothered rage.

Hold fast to dreams, / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird, / That cannot fly.

O, yes, / I say it plain, / America never was America to me / And yet I swear this oath— / America will be.

How something is seen I suppose depends on whose eyes are looking at it.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go if you really want to go.