Langston Hughes on family

What happens to a dream deferred?

O, let America be America again —
The land that never has been yet —
And yet must be — the land where every man is free.

Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.

Ring Lardner1885–1933

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.

Bill Cosbyborn 1937