Hughes

Famous quotes containing the word hughes:

    “What happens to a dream deferred?

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

    “Pike, three inches long, perfect
    Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold.
    Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.
    They dance on the surface among the flies.”
    —Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

    “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)