Quotes About Langston

Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

I wanted to be Langston Hughes.

One fella who has really impressed me is Big E Langston.

Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

Good morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?

Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.

Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

Them cool green leaves Is waitin' to shelter me O, little tree!

The night is beautiful, So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people. Beautiful, also, is the sun. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.

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

Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree

hope I never love someone so much that they could hurt me the way Langston was hurt, so wounded all he could do was cry and mope around the house and ask me to make him peanut butter and banana sandwiches with the crusts cut off, then play Boggle with him, which of course I always did, because I usually do whatever Langston wants me to do.

But Langston repeated, "Lily, you just don't understand. What you need is someone to keep you occupied. You need a boyfriend.