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“Sometimes a crumb falls
From the tables of joy,
Sometimes a bone
Is flung.

To some people
Love is given,
To others
Only heaven.”

Langston Hughes

“Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.”

Langston Hughes

Source: The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

“Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.”

Langston Hughes

Source: The Collected Poems

“I wish the rent Was heaven sent.”

Langston Hughes

Source: The Collected Poems

“I am so tired of waiting.
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two —
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.”

Langston Hughes

“Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.”

Langston Hughes

“Frosting

Freedom
Is just frosting
On somebody else's
Cake--
And so must be
Till we
Learn how to
Bake.”

Langston Hughes

Source: The Panther and the Lash

“Dream within a dream,
Our dream deferred.
Good morning, daddy!
Ain’t you heard?”

Langston Hughes

"Island"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Variant: What happens
to a dream deferred?
Daddy, ain’t you heard?

“There’s a certain
amount of traveling
in a dream deferred.”

Langston Hughes

"Same in Blues"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Variant: A certain amount
of nothing
in a dream deferred.

“The stars went out and so did the moon.
The singer stopped playing and went to bed
While the Weary Blues echoed through his head.
He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.”

Langston Hughes The Weary Blues

"The Weary Blues," from The Weary Blues (1926)

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

Langston Hughes

Let America Be America Again (1935)

“Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.”

Langston Hughes

Let America Be America Again (1935)

“When you turn the corner
And you run into yourself
Then you know that you have turned
All the corners that are left.”

Langston Hughes

"Final Curve"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)

“They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America.”

Langston Hughes

"I, Too, Sing America," in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959)

“I was so sick last night I
Didn't hardly know my mind.
So sick last night I
Didn't know my mind.
I drunk some bad licker that
Almost made me blind.”

Langston Hughes

"Morning After," (l. 1-6), from Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)