"Life is for the living. Death is..." - Quote by Langston Hughes

“Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.”

“In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.”

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.”

“Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.”

“With what we give, we make a life.”

“As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.”

“There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.”

“Biography lends to death a new terror.”

“I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They have n't got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.”