"If you want to honor me, give..." - Quote by Langston Hughes

“Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.”

“The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.”

“My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.”

“Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.”

“Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.”

“I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.”

“All things considered, there is only Matisse.”

“Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.”

“Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.”