Langston Hughes Poems Quotes & Sayings

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me. — Arthur Blank

Hell! We don't need an infection to exterminate the human race - we'll do it ourselves! — Manel Loureiro

We each get one life that is our own. We each in our own way struggle to get ahead, love, grieve, and lose our loved ones to death. — Kyung-Sook Shin

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police. — Langston Hughes

I'm becoming too honest for my own good these days. — Brenda Weiler

I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges. — Langston Hughes

You could even scan to the end and read the last page. Know that by doing so, however, you would violate every holy and honorable storytelling principle known to man, thereby throwing the universe into chaos and causing grief to untold millions. — Brandon Sanderson

The Lord listens in all those places. They're just different slices of the same pie. — Bette Lee Crosby

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly. — Langston Hughes

The first step to achieving all your goals is getting out of bed. Coffee and toast are optional. — Peter James West

The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger

The wild gas, the fixed air is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgments until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and until we see something deeper than the agitation of the troubled and frothy surface.
[Alluding to Joseph Priestley's Observations on Air] — Edmund Burke

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything. — Langston Hughes

Be the best of whatever you are. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I felt very bad in Washington ... I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems. — Langston Hughes

From the standpoint of integrity, I think we all need to own up to our dirty little secrets. I believe that when we are open about our own strange desires or unusual lives, it paves the way for others to do the same.

In the past thirty years, gay men and lesbians took a lot of flack to tell the truth about their love lives and their courage opened the door for a mass migration out of the closet. We're now at a moment in time when unconventional families (even thirty-year triads and gay couples) are losing their children in custody battles because their families don't conform to mainstream ideas about what a family should be.

Given this context, I want to be someone who stands up for my choices even if they're unpopular, even if I get snickers at cocktail parties. — Victoria Vantoch