"I will not take 'but' for an..." - Quote by Langston Hughes

“Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.”

“Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.”

“Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.”

“Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.”

“Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.”

“A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.”

“I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.”

“Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.”

“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?”