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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do wha...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
LANGSTON HUGHES

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us b...
LANGSTON HUGHES

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
LANGSTON HUGHES

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short no...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
LANGSTON HUGHES

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I will not take 'but' for an answer.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our Eng...
LANGSTON HUGHES

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I must never write when I do not want to write.
LANGSTON HUGHES

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
LANGSTON HUGHES

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except i...
LANGSTON HUGHES

What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a soreAnd the...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Listen, Christ,You did alright in your day, I reckonBut that days gone now. They ghosted you up a sw...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not t...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a n...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Well, Son, I tell you, life for me aint been no crystal stair.
Its been hard and bare and rough p...
LANGSTON HUGHES

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

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

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
LANGSTON HUGHES

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you real...
LANGSTON HUGHES

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a so...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. -Langston Hugh...
LANGSTON HUGHES

My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more tha...
LANGSTON HUGHES

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
LANGSTON HUGHES

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

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human bloo...
LANGSTON HUGHES

To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outside...
LANGSTON HUGHES

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My fav...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beatin...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Looks like what drives me crazy
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it<...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture...
LANGSTON HUGHES

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore the...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends soft as it...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas....
LANGSTON HUGHES

Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looke...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods Tha...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Uncle Willy's Chocolate Factory ... with lots of help from really good assistants.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind
LANGSTON HUGHES

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

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up - like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore -...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I will not take "but" for an answer
LANGSTON HUGHES

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - n...
LANGSTON HUGHES

We have this exhibit of black collectibles, all donated, ... Soon we are going to change this out fo...
LANGSTON HUGHES

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives . . . Censorship for...
LANGSTON HUGHES

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? . . . Or does it explode?
LANGSTON HUGHES

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind
LANGSTON HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to d...
LANGSTON HUGHES

a dream deferred is a dream denied.
LANGSTON HUGHES

My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man<...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen LANGSTON HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.<...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Harlem

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a ra...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
I...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and under...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.

Out of lo...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we di...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Life dosent frighten me at all.
LANGSTON HUGHES

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
LANGSTON HUGHES

7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
LANGSTON HUGHES

America is a dream.
The poet says it was promises.
The people say it is promises—...
LANGSTON HUGHES

To some people
Love is given,
To others
Only Heaven.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I am amazed that my work of Dylan was chosen as his portrait,
LANGSTON HUGHES

I will take your heart.
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
...
LANGSTON HUGHES

...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
LANGSTON HUGHES

Oppression

Now dreams
Are not available
To the dreamers,
Nor songs
To...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Pleasured equally
In seeking as in finding,
Each detail minding,
Old Walt went seekin...
LANGSTON HUGHES Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.
LANGSTON COLEMAN It's a little premature to say.
CHRIS LANGSTON Even though he was uncovered, they were preventing him from getting out and blocking anybody else. I...
LANGSTON WALKER Hispanics have been very dominant in their willingness to vote with their feet — to move to other ...
RONALD LANGSTON At the very least the idea is the expansion (of his chest cavity) will keep up with his growth.
CHRIS LANGSTON A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ~Oliver Wendal...
K. LANGSTON They've gotten to the point they don't want to rebuild.
CHRIS LANGSTON A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader’s mind gave it life.
ELIZABETH LANGSTON We want these kids' first experience with organized football to be positive.
LANGSTON WALKER We came out here and gave up our time and our gear for these kids to have a fulfilling football expe...
LANGSTON WALKER It's time for a nap.
KATHY LANGSTON You look at all those people and realize that they've all done the same thing and they've all made i...
KATHY LANGSTON I was really nervous. Threw the ball really gently. Took it really easy, but then after I realized--...
KATHY LANGSTON We still have to improve our passing and setting. Better setting will give us more kills. But I'm ha...
KATHY LANGSTON Alyssa did excellent today. She still makes some freshman mistakes, but she gels very well with the ...
KATHY LANGSTON It feels great. I think they were a little more relaxed today. It's hard to teach them to forget abo...
KATHY LANGSTON Within the 20, there's only 30 yards to work with, which is an advantage for the defense. As the sea...
LANGSTON WALKER It's going OK. It's a nice, slow learning curve. It's like with anything, you're going to make mista...
LANGSTON WALKER We came out this week and were determined to stick to it and make it work.
LANGSTON WALKER If something is not covered by insurance, or if you're uninsured or underinsured, it's reasonable to...
DR. EDWARD LANGSTON As long as they can work with their physician on it, and it remains voluntary, then we generally don...
DR. EDWARD LANGSTON My average Medicare patient has heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and then a few other things you ...
DR. EDWARD LANGSTON They're the most vulnerable patients we have out there except for the infant. We have some excellent...
DR. EDWARD LANGSTON

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
TED HUGHES

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
TED HUGHES

What happens in the heart simply happens.
TED HUGHES The facts are on our side.
KAREN HUGHES We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
KAREN HUGHES And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to mem...
KAREN HUGHES I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.
KAREN HUGHES Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
KAREN HUGHES For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Co...
KAREN HUGHES I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered hi...
KAREN HUGHES I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a...
KAREN HUGHES And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
KAREN HUGHES Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly ru...
KAREN HUGHES I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigor...
KAREN HUGHES In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris,...
KAREN HUGHES The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work ...
KAREN HUGHES Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to rea...
KAREN HUGHES As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
KAREN HUGHES The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
KAREN HUGHES

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
HOWARD HUGHES

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES

The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th...
CHARLES HUGHES

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES HUGHES There isnt such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He Tom Brown never wants anythin...
THOMAS HUGHES 'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spar...
ADAM HUGHES I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get...
ADAM HUGHES I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only diffe...
ADAM HUGHES A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbi...
ADAM HUGHES Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop...
ADAM HUGHES I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscio...
ADAM HUGHES That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the iss...
ADAM HUGHES I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure ou...
ADAM HUGHES I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the De...
ADAM HUGHES /> Birmingham game on 16 October, but I don't know whether that is possible, it is too early to say,...
AARON HUGHES The hernia has been fixed now and I don't want to break it again, so it would be pointless playing o...
AARON HUGHES Hopefully it will not be too long before I'm back.
AARON HUGHES It was something I needed done. I felt it go in the second half of the Chelsea game at the weekend,
AARON HUGHES I am sure it would have been easy to get out of the Malta trip as it was a friendly match but everyo...
AARON HUGHES I can't say too much about what happened with George McCartney because I do not know the full story ...
AARON HUGHES Talk of other players being ready to quit is wide of the mark.
AARON HUGHES I want to put an end to all this talk of players not wanting to play for Sanchez - it is simply not ...
AARON HUGHES Reaching our first major finals since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico has to be a realistic target,
AARON HUGHES

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from w...
CHARLES HUGHES Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involve...
THOMAS HUGHES

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us th...
CHERYL HUGHES

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears o...
TED HUGHES

If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?"
The dragon wa...
TED HUGHES

My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I thin...
YELLE HUGHES

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
CHARLES HUGHES

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
CHARLES HUGHES

As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish...
HUGHES MEARNS

Nothing destroys a team quite so quickly as inaccurate passing.Nothing builds a team's confidence mo...
CHARLES HUGHES

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
CHARLES HUGHES Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must ...
THOMAS HUGHES

Her face was her chaperone.
RUPERT HUGHES Life isn't all beer and skittles.
THOMAS HUGHES All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
RICHARD HUGHES

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us th...
CHERYL HUGHES

When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and the...
CHERYL HUGHES

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the s...
HOWARD HUGHES

At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity,...
JOHN HUGHES I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone be...
CLARA HUGHES

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don&...
JOHN HUGHES Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your ...
GLENN HUGHES

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the...
ROBERT HUGHES

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...
ROBERT HUGHES

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being ...
TED HUGHES Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them ...
MATT HUGHES

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
ROBERT HUGHES

I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any...
JOHN HUGHES She's done it and she's on her way. She needed to think about how to do that by making the right dec...
ANN HUGHES How do we get our message out? It so easily gets portrayed that the Democratic Party is negative and...
ANN HUGHES It has been a long time coming. If he had not received a knighthood this year I would have carried o...
ANN HUGHES If I find out that I missed a good sale, I just feel sick,
ANN HUGHES I like a lot of stuff -- the more stuff the better. My philosophy is that you can never have too muc...
ANN HUGHES The bottom line is he's still gonna die for this crime, ... Now [Cooper] knows what it's like to go ...
ANN HUGHES I think its particularly good for cases that have some real sensitivity, like sexual harassment or a...
ANN HUGHES It is growing exponentially, ... It's rapidly increasing because the pressures on the justice system...
ANN HUGHES She is a classic case of how to be more a part of the team. She is popular with the girls and boys (...
ANN HUGHES She is playing for the sake of the team now. She's learned that the little bumps you hit along the w...
ANN HUGHES They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip an...
KATHRYN HUGHES We try really hard to maintain the focus of this day on the kids.
ALLEN HUGHES As far as we're concerned, they are the real stars of the event.
ALLEN HUGHES It really is about a whole lot of people working together that really can make a difference if you b...
ALLEN HUGHES

America never was America to meAnd yet I swear this oath-America will be!

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