"Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The..." - Quote by Langston Hughes
Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?
More by Langston Hughes
“I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.”
“There is no color line in art.”
“I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head-- So I don't dare start thinking in the morning.”
More on Dreams
“You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.”
“The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.”
“My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.”
More on Race
“I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.”
“I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.”
“If you are black, if you are Puerto Rican or Hispanic, be proud of that. But don't let it become a problem. Let it become somebody else's problem.”