Langston Hughes

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.