“So boy, don’t you turn back; Don’t you sit…” Langston Hughes

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“So boy, don’t you turn back; Don’t you sit down on the steps, ’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard”

Langston Hughes (spoken by The mother)

Mother to Son, Lines 14-16 (The Crisis, December 1922)

The turn from her story to her charge: her son must not give up because the way is hard.

Citation: "So boy, don’t you turn back; Don’t you sit down on the steps, ’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard" — Langston Hughes, Mother to Son, Lines 14-16 (The Crisis, December 1922). (id hughes-mother-to-son-q3)

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Quotation from Mother to Son by Langston Hughes