Tim Hayes

“They rung my bell to ask me.
Could I recommend a maid.
I said, yes, your momma.”
― Langston Hughes

“Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“Oppression

Now dreams
Are not available
To the dreamers,
Nor songs
To the singers.

In some lands
Dark night
And cold steel
Prevail--
But the dream
Will come back,
And the song
Break
Its jail.”
― Langston Hughes, The Panther and the Lash

“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, Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings