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The quote, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair", is a huge part of the poem. The mother is speaking to her son, and trying to get the message across that her life has not always been the easiest, but that she has not given up. Langston Hughes, uses a, "Crystal Stair", to symbolize the mothers difficult life. Crystal implies delicacy and beauty and the refined things in life. When the mother says "life for me ain't been no crystal stair", she means that her life has been the opposite of all the things that crystal symbolizes. Hughes uses the images of "Boards torn up" and "Places with no carpet", to indicate the obstacles and hardships that the mother has encountered in her life of poverty and racism. The lesson she is trying to convey to her son is that she has never given up and she mentions "I'se still climbin'". By, still climbing the staircase she turned corners, and achieved other goals on the way that make up for her conflicts in life.======