"Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your..." - Quote by Langston Hughes

“Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.”

“This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.”

“I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.”

“Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.”

“I hate myself, and I want to die”

“This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison”

“Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.”

“The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.”

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”