Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. – Langston Hughes
Negroes – Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day – They change their mind. – Langston Hughes
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. – Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. – Langston Hughes
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow’s feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. – George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell