Langston Hughes Quotes
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.Langston Hughes
Quotes to Explore
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
Gary Lucas -
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles -
In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
Jack Adams -
I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
Dan O'Brien -
It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
Gail Sheehy -
I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
Tavi Gevinson
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
Dan Stevens -
I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
Patricia Arquette -
I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
Radha Mitchell -
When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
Natalie Massenet -
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
Zoe Saldana
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
Dan Gilbert -
In the end, crime doesn't pay.
Lane Garrison -
Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
Fat Joe -
I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
Vanessa Ferlito -
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
Ian Hart
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I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
Candice Bergen -
My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.
Charles Barkley -
I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
Pete Townshend The Who -
I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.
Brett Ratner -
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.
William O. Douglas -
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes