"Life is a big sea full of..." - Quote by Langston Hughes

“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 build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.”

“I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!”

“I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.”

“Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.”

“Don't ask for security, ask for adventure”

“All soils are not fertile.”

“We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.”

“We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.”