"Through my grandmother's stories always life moved,..." - Quote by Langston Hughes
Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."
More by Langston Hughes
“Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.”
“Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.”
“Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.”
More on Storytelling
“I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.”
“I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.”
“I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.”
More on Life
“Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.”
“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.”
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”