James Mercer Langston Hughes – an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Image from NYDailynews.
โI swear to the Lord I still can’t see why Democracy means Everybody but me.โ
ย โAn artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.โ
ย โHold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.โ
ย โWhat happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?… Or does it explode?โ
ย โI have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.โ
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