Life According to Langston Hughes

"Hold fast to dreams/ For if dreams die/ Life is a broken-winged bird/ That cannot fly." — Langston Hughes

"Cheap little rhymes/ A cheap little tune/ Are sometimes as dangerous/ As a sliver of the moon." — Langston Hughes

"An artist must be free to choose what he does certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose." — Langston Hughes

"Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people — the beauty within themselves." — Langston Hughes

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

"... the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it...." — Langston Hughes

"I look at my own body/ With eyes no longer blind—/ And I see that my own hands can make/ The world that's in my mind." — Langston Hughes

"When a man starts out to build a world, he starts first with himself." — Langston Hughes

"Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling." — Langston Hughes

"Go home and write/ a page tonight./ And let that page come out of you—/ Then, it will be true." — Langston Hughes