Langston Hughes Quotes

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

Langston Hughes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkCultureCreativeBlackBetter

There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'

Joel Edgerton

SeaJobMeHandsYouStage

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

John Eldredge

ReligionWorldLookingView

Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.

Anand Gopal

ShortNeverAfghanistanGunsGround

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

Amanda Seyfried

WantPersonalNeverPrettySure

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.

Russell Smith

AmbitionDangerousWillWayFirst

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

Mike Pence

BusinessMountainAmericaYouKnow

Would I like to do a feature? Absolutely.

Michelle MacLaren

WouldLikeAbsolutelyFeature

That's what really concerns me about the modern-day terrorists that we face is this global expansion.

Michael McCaul

MeFaceExpansionGlobalReally

When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.

Don Rickles

WorldThinkComedyYouSideLike

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

Diane Abbott

YouSayDefendAnythingSounds

To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.

Cheech Marin

AttitudeYourselfI AmMePolitical

We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.

Coy Bowles

CountryWantRockBandNeed

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