Who said "I come as a live wire rather than a dead sheep."?

This quote is attributed to Langston Hughes.

I come as a live wire rather than a dead sheep. - Langston Hughes

"I come as a live wire rather than a dead sheep."

Langston Hughes Courage

Poet Novelist American 1901–1967

"I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins."

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."

"I am my mother's son. I wear the colors she gave me when I was born."

"Never let fear stop you from chasing your dreams."

"Courage is being afraid but doing it anyway."

"Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do."

"Sometimes you have to be the monster to stop the monsters."