"For my best poems were all written..." - Quote by Langston Hughes

“Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.”

“Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.”

“I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.”

“Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"”

“Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.”

“To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.”

“You may get an emotional thrill when you first buy something, but emotions are fickle. You buy that one thing you think will complete your happiness, but after awhile the feeling goes away and you have to go to the next thing. You just keep going from purchase to purchase looking for the one thing that will finally satisfy. But stuff can't satisfy.”

“All those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealously, all those feelings are red.”

“Pity makes suffering contagious.”