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Quotation from Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
“Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair”
Mother to Son, Lines 1-2 (The Crisis, December 1922)
The mother's opening statement, which sets up the extended metaphor of the stair.
Citation: "Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair" — Langston Hughes, Mother to Son, Lines 1-2 (The Crisis, December 1922). (id hughes-mother-to-son-q1)
