Dorothy B. Hughes quote: "He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite."

Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh...
DOROTHY B. HUGHES

He scraped through the dark sand to the center house, two stories, both pouring bands of light into ...
DOROTHY B. HUGHES

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
DOROTHY B. HUGHES

But not to our Muffin.
DOROTHY B. HUGHES

I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess ...
B. WAYNE HUGHES

I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I m...
B. WAYNE HUGHES

You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, w...
B. WAYNE HUGHES

Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in wester...
B. WAYNE HUGHES

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING

My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING

I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING

I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING

I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING

A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING

I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do wha...
LANGSTON HUGHES

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

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
TED HUGHES

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
TED HUGHES

What happens in the heart simply happens.
TED HUGHES

The facts are on our side.
KAREN HUGHES

We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
KAREN HUGHES

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to mem...
KAREN HUGHES

I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.
KAREN HUGHES

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
KAREN HUGHES

For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Co...
KAREN HUGHES

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered hi...
KAREN HUGHES

I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a...
KAREN HUGHES

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
KAREN HUGHES

Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly ru...
KAREN HUGHES

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigor...
KAREN HUGHES

In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris,...
KAREN HUGHES

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work ...
KAREN HUGHES

Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to rea...
KAREN HUGHES

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
KAREN HUGHES

The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
KAREN HUGHES

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us b...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
HOWARD HUGHES

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
LANGSTON HUGHES

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short no...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
LANGSTON HUGHES

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I will not take 'but' for an answer.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our Eng...
LANGSTON HUGHES

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I must never write when I do not want to write.
LANGSTON HUGHES

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
LANGSTON HUGHES

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except i...
LANGSTON HUGHES

The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th...
CHARLES HUGHES

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES HUGHES

What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a soreAnd the...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Listen, Christ,You did alright in your day, I reckonBut that days gone now. They ghosted you up a sw...
LANGSTON HUGHES

There isnt such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He Tom Brown never wants anythin...
THOMAS HUGHES

'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spar...
ADAM HUGHES

I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get...
ADAM HUGHES

I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only diffe...
ADAM HUGHES

A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbi...
ADAM HUGHES

Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop...
ADAM HUGHES

I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscio...
ADAM HUGHES

That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the iss...
ADAM HUGHES

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure ou...
ADAM HUGHES

I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the De...
ADAM HUGHES

/> Birmingham game on 16 October, but I don't know whether that is possible, it is too early to say,...
AARON HUGHES

The hernia has been fixed now and I don't want to break it again, so it would be pointless playing o...
AARON HUGHES

Hopefully it will not be too long before I'm back.
AARON HUGHES

It was something I needed done. I felt it go in the second half of the Chelsea game at the weekend,
AARON HUGHES

I am sure it would have been easy to get out of the Malta trip as it was a friendly match but everyo...
AARON HUGHES

I can't say too much about what happened with George McCartney because I do not know the full story ...
AARON HUGHES

Talk of other players being ready to quit is wide of the mark.
AARON HUGHES

I want to put an end to all this talk of players not wanting to play for Sanchez - it is simply not ...
AARON HUGHES

Reaching our first major finals since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico has to be a realistic target,
AARON HUGHES

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from w...
CHARLES HUGHES

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not t...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involve...
THOMAS HUGHES

Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a n...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us th...
CHERYL HUGHES

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears o...
TED HUGHES

If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?"
The dragon wa...
TED HUGHES

My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I thin...
YELLE HUGHES

Well, Son, I tell you, life for me aint been no crystal stair.
Its been hard and bare and rough p...
LANGSTON HUGHES

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
CHARLES HUGHES

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
CHARLES HUGHES

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish...
HUGHES MEARNS

Nothing destroys a team quite so quickly as inaccurate passing.Nothing builds a team's confidence mo...
CHARLES HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
LANGSTON HUGHES

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you real...
LANGSTON HUGHES

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
CHARLES HUGHES

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must ...
THOMAS HUGHES

Her face was her chaperone.
RUPERT HUGHES

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a so...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Life isn't all beer and skittles.
THOMAS HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. -Langston Hugh...
LANGSTON HUGHES

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
RICHARD HUGHES

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us th...
CHERYL HUGHES

When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and the...
CHERYL HUGHES

My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more tha...
LANGSTON HUGHES

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the s...
HOWARD HUGHES

At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity,...
JOHN HUGHES

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone be...
CLARA HUGHES

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don&...
JOHN HUGHES

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your ...
GLENN HUGHES

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the...
ROBERT HUGHES

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