What did Langston Hughes mean by: The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall. - Langston Hughes Poet · USA Copy
+ Humor is when the joke’s on you but hits the other fellow first — before it boomerangs. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Langston Hughes, Boomerang, Jokes, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk. Feraz Zeid, August 25, 2023December 24, 2023, Langston Hughes, Fronts, Walking, Walks, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Langston Hughes, Death, Music, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Langston Hughes, Beautiful, Tired, Waiting, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ I will not take “but” for an answer. Feraz Zeid, August 1, 2023December 12, 2023, Langston Hughes, Attitude, Questions And Answers, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ I will not take ‘but’ for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy’s ‘but’ too long. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Langston Hughes, Black History, Democracy, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Langston Hughes, Details, Findings, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Langston Hughes, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
