Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist, and one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Wikipedia
Both of Hughes' paternal great-grandmothers were African-American and both of his paternal great-grandfathers were white slave owners of Kentucky. According to Hughes, one of these men was Sam Clay, a Scottish-American whiskey distiller of Henry County and supposedly a relative of Henry Clay, and the other was Silas Cushenberry a Jewish-American slave trader of Clark County
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