"I will not take "but" for an answer." — Langston Hughes

"I will not take "but" for an answer."

— Langston Hughes

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144 Quotes by Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes has 144 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody…
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white…
In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when…
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art…
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone,…
It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I…
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a…

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Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. — Jane Austen
I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people… — Dan Aykroyd
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Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word:… — Dave Barry
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it… — Pope Benedict XVI
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers. — Ruth Benedict
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before… — Jose Bergamin
I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.' — Elizabeth Berkley
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. — Yogi Berra
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer. — Yogi Berra

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