"Hold fast to dreams For when dreams..." - Quote by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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“Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.”
“If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.”
“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.”
More on Dreams
“If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.”
“I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.”
“When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.”
More on Hope
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
“The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.”
“We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people.”