"Violent anger makes me physically ill...." - Quote by Langston Hughes

“To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.”

“A dream deferred is a dream denied.”

“Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.”

“There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.”

“We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.”

“Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!”

“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”

“I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.”

“Medicines are only fit for old people.”