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Langston Hughes Quotes

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

Langston Hughes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Writing America Been Concerned

Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.

Father Music Hero Responsibility Me

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.

Day Yourself World Laugh You Look

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

Prison Year Guy Costs Million Bucks

I'd rather be in my house crying than be sitting with someone talking about shoes, y'know?

Shoes Someone Talking House Sitting

I'm always excited about life in general.

Metta World Peace

Life Always Excited General About

When I was super young, I had an Atari and used to play 'Space Invaders.' Then I fell in love with 'Mario Bros.,' 'Sonic the Hedgehog' and 'Yoshi' on Super Nintendo. I was quite a bit of a gamer as a kid when I think about it.

Love Space Think Play Young Kid

Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go.

Down Go Drops Out Double Stunt

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Dreams Crazy Profound Seem Most

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

Immigration Illegal Immigration Need

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Positive Tradition Debate India Need

In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Music Justice School Me Law Reading

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

Live Art Theatre Performance Started

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