"I tire so of hearing people say,..." - Quote by Langston Hughes

“Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.”

“When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.”

“Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.”

“You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.”

“Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.”

“How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.”

“Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.”

“If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.”

“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.”