Hughes

Famous quotes containing the word hughes:

“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 (1902–1967)

“Clean the spittoons.
The steam in hotel kitchens,
And the smoke in hotel lobbies,
And the slime in hotel spittoons:
Part of my life.”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

“What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)