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Langston Hughes Quotes

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

Langston Hughes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967

Topics

Life You Go Want Anywhere Almost

I didn't handle success all that well.

Success Handle Well

In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Strange Mean Everyone Dictionary Did

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

John Henrik Clarke

History Time Day People Political

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

Robert Baden-Powell

Men War Me You Look Sometimes

People who know me know that I'm always interested in an honest, civil exchange of views, and I'm not some Hollywood liberal know-nothing.

People Me Know Hollywood Always Who

We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears.

Think American Fox Mobile Ears Type

Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.

Curious Escape Human Everyone Leave

I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

Love Home Business Everyone Show

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Good Attitude Not Good Enough Enough

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

Diego Della Valle

Racing Kid Driver Footballer Kids

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

Think Young I Think Ought Writers

The very first thing on the docket is to have the opportunity to travel to look at spiders in other parts of the world. I know there are really cool silks out there.

Opportunity Travel Cool World Look

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