If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting…

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

— Ben Vereen

I wanted to be Langston Hughes.

— Jason Reynolds

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me…

— Frank Ocean

“If flowers were boogers, I'd pick a few big ones and flick them on your grave.”

— Jarod Kintz

You pick out the big men! I'll make them brave!

— Pyrrhus of Epirus

When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.

— Evan Longoria

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

— Jessica Livingston

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by…

— Oswald Chambers

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

— Richard M. Nixon

Truly successful individuals create both immediate and long-lasting influence attracting others to them.

— Bob Burg

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

— Robyn Hitchcock

If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that…

— George Barna

Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory…

— Ronald Takaki

[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes -…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“if you’re going to use the word ‘dream’ in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.”

— Jewelle Gomez