Kathy Langston quote: "It feels great. I think they were a little more relaxed today. It's hard to teach them to forget about the last point and move on, but they did that today. We're hoping that will continue into next week."

It's time for a nap.
KATHY LANGSTON

You look at all those people and realize that they've all done the same thing and they've all made i...
KATHY LANGSTON

I was really nervous. Threw the ball really gently. Took it really easy, but then after I realized--...
KATHY LANGSTON

We still have to improve our passing and setting. Better setting will give us more kills. But I'm ha...
KATHY LANGSTON

Alyssa did excellent today. She still makes some freshman mistakes, but she gels very well with the ...
KATHY LANGSTON

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.
LANGSTON COLEMAN

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

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
LANGSTON HUGHES

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

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

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human bloo...
LANGSTON HUGHES

To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outside...
LANGSTON HUGHES

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My fav...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beatin...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Looks like what drives me crazy
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it<...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture...
LANGSTON HUGHES

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

I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends soft as it...
LANGSTON HUGHES

It's a little premature to say.
CHRIS LANGSTON

Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas....
LANGSTON HUGHES

Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looke...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Even though he was uncovered, they were preventing him from getting out and blocking anybody else. I...
LANGSTON WALKER

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods Tha...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Uncle Willy's Chocolate Factory ... with lots of help from really good assistants.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind
LANGSTON HUGHES

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

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES

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

Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I will not take "but" for an answer
LANGSTON HUGHES

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - n...
LANGSTON HUGHES

We have this exhibit of black collectibles, all donated, ... Soon we are going to change this out fo...
LANGSTON HUGHES

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

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

America never was America to meAnd yet I swear this oath-America will be!
LANGSTON HUGHES

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind
LANGSTON HUGHES

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

a dream deferred is a dream denied.
LANGSTON HUGHES

My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man<...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen LANGSTON HUGHES

Hispanics have been very dominant in their willingness to vote with their feet — to move to other ...
RONALD LANGSTON

At the very least the idea is the expansion (of his chest cavity) will keep up with his growth.
CHRIS LANGSTON

Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.<...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Harlem

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a ra...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
I...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and under...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.

Out of lo...
LANGSTON HUGHES

I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we di...
LANGSTON HUGHES

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ~Oliver Wendal...
K. LANGSTON

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Life dosent frighten me at all.
LANGSTON HUGHES

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
LANGSTON HUGHES

7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
LANGSTON HUGHES

America is a dream.
The poet says it was promises.
The people say it is promises—...
LANGSTON HUGHES

To some people
Love is given,
To others
Only Heaven.
LANGSTON HUGHES

I am amazed that my work of Dylan was chosen as his portrait,
LANGSTON HUGHES

They've gotten to the point they don't want to rebuild.
CHRIS LANGSTON

I will take your heart.
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
...
LANGSTON HUGHES

...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll ...
LANGSTON HUGHES

A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader’s mind gave it life.
ELIZABETH LANGSTON

I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
LANGSTON HUGHES

Oppression

Now dreams
Are not available
To the dreamers,
Nor songs
To...
LANGSTON HUGHES

We want these kids' first experience with organized football to be positive.
LANGSTON WALKER

We came out here and gave up our time and our gear for these kids to have a fulfilling football expe...
LANGSTON WALKER

Pleasured equally
In seeking as in finding,
Each detail minding,
Old Walt went seekin...
LANGSTON HUGHES

Within the 20, there's only 30 yards to work with, which is an advantage for the defense. As the sea...
LANGSTON WALKER

It's going OK. It's a nice, slow learning curve. It's like with anything, you're going to make mista...
LANGSTON WALKER

We came out this week and were determined to stick to it and make it work.
LANGSTON WALKER

If something is not covered by insurance, or if you're uninsured or underinsured, it's reasonable to...
DR. EDWARD LANGSTON

As long as they can work with their physician on it, and it remains voluntary, then we generally don...
DR. EDWARD LANGSTON

My average Medicare patient has heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and then a few other things you ...
DR. EDWARD LANGSTON

They're the most vulnerable patients we have out there except for the infant. We have some excellent...
DR. EDWARD LANGSTON

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has alrea...
KATHY IRELAND

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success...
KATHY IRELAND

The West has to take a critical look at itself and examine the apparent double standards at work tha...
KATHY GANNON

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenag...
KATHY GRIFFIN

When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some ...
KATHY MATTEA

I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other ...
KATHY IRELAND

It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling...
KATHY IRELAND

I hope I can become a voice for all cancers and all patients.
KATHY GIUSTI

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it...
KATHY FRESTON

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one h...
KATHY ACKER

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I t...
KATHY IRELAND

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.
KATHY GRIFFIN

I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I&#...
KATHY BATES

I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'V...
KATHY GRIFFIN

And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a...
KATHY BATES

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be see...
KATHY ACKER

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.
KATHY ACKER

Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes c...
KATHY LETTE

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displayi...
KATHY GRIFFIN

We expanded the brand to include a whole line of apparel and accessories, but we quickly learned tha...
KATHY IRELAND

I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ...
KATHY GRIFFIN

Whole foods like grains and beans release their sugar very, very slowly because of the fiber in them...
KATHY FRESTON

I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.
KATHY IRELAND

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I c...
KATHY GRIFFIN

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. I...
KATHY REICHS

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families,...
KATHY GRIFFIN

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their anc...
KATHY REICHS

Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out.
KATHY FRESTON

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.
KATHY NAJIMY

So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You c...
KATHY MATTEA

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has rea...
KATHY REICHS

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been ...
KATHY IRELAND

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.
KATHY IRELAND

The most important thing a leader can do is set the vision and don't stray. We said, 'We are...
KATHY GIUSTI

You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put you...
KATHY SELIGMAN

Artichokes are like humans: you have to go through so much to get to the heart.
KATHY GOOD

Some people do not have houses or homes, and they still wanted to give to help people.
KATHY AYCOCK

Because of Katrina, everybody's having a lot of stress, so we thought we have to have it.
KATHY AYCOCK

We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina...
KATHY AYCOCK

This year we are expecting 2,000 walkers due to the circumstances Hurricane Katrina has left us with...
KATHY AYCOCK

Cook dominated. She didn't make any mistakes, and if she did, they didn't find them.
KATHY ARENDSEN

She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did.
KATHY ARENDSEN

It's a great surprise to get these players back.
KATHY ARENDSEN

The defense is solid, and it's more athletic and faster.
KATHY ARENDSEN

Amy will pitch 50 percent or more of our innings. Her pitches have been sharp and she has built her ...
KATHY ARENDSEN

We were very lucky to inherit her, as well as Beth (Boskovich) and Amy (Harris).
KATHY ARENDSEN

The justice doesn't have any comment about it.
KATHY ARBERG

It was a misunderstanding. The justice did not intend for the event to be closed to print press.
KATHY ARBERG

was invited and agreed to administer the oath.
KATHY ARBERG

The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform...
KATHY ARBERG

What makes the program run is the parents of these kids are willing to bring them early or pick them...
KATHY ANDERSON

They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much f...
KATHY ANDERSON

This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that and...
KATHY ANDERSON

The findings show that we have a significant majority of respondents who have been with us for more ...
KATHY ANDERSON

Nobody complained. It was a smooth transition.
KATHY ANDERSON

I encourage everybody to apply, not just the smartest and brightest.
KATHY ANDERSON

It's very retro-looking. They used to have all types of paraphernalia on the walls but all that's ch...
KATHY ANDERSON

This is a different election. It is so much more important than any other time because our safety is...
KATHY ANDERSON

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
KATHY ACKER

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.
KATHY ACKER

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.
KATHY ACKER

I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It...
KATHY ACKER

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.
KATHY ACKER

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
KATHY ACKER

Burroughs was a very political writer.
KATHY ACKER

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.
KATHY ACKER

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expecta...
KATHY ACKER

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
KATHY ACKER

I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after ...
KATHY FRESTON

I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.
KATHY GRIFFIN

A pot clashes with its lid In someones hurried kitchen A telephone boils off the hook. Outside, a ca...
KATHY WALKER

We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial...
KATHY SIERRA

In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.
KATHY SIERRA

His stomach was bloated because he was so full of parasites.
KATHY MILLER

The thoughts and prayers of the entire Christopher Reeve Foundation team are with Dana and her loved...
KATHY LEWIS

(The issue) became so pervasive that we decided to create a separate subcommittee.
KATHY CAMPBELL

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged...
KATHY BAKER

I haven't been approached to do anything, but I would certainly make room for it. It was a reall...
KATHY VALENTINE

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
KATHY MATTEA

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have g...
KATHY MATTEA

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the sto...
KATHY REICHS

We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the tr...
KATHY FRESTON

On their first date, they drove to the top of Lookout Mountain. For years she kept the red hat she w...
KATHY HENDRICKS

We need change now. There are an enormous amount of leisure-time choices. We want to be at the top o...
KATHY HOKE

It feels great. I think they were a little more relaxed today. It's hard to teach them to forget about the last point and move on, but they did that today. We're hoping that will continue into next week.

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It feels great. I think they were a little more relaxed today. It's hard to teach them to forget about the last point and move on, but they did that today. We're hoping that will continue into next week.

Kathy Langston

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