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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.


Langston Hughes

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Though the goodness
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CHARLES 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 Life isn't all beer and skittles.
THOMAS 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 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 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 The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...
ROBERT HUGHES Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being ...
TED HUGHES Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them ...
MATT HUGHES It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
ROBERT HUGHES I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any...
JOHN HUGHES She's done it and she's on her way. She needed to think about how to do that by making the right dec...
ANN HUGHES How do we get our message out? It so easily gets portrayed that the Democratic Party is negative and...
ANN HUGHES It has been a long time coming. If he had not received a knighthood this year I would have carried o...
ANN HUGHES If I find out that I missed a good sale, I just feel sick,
ANN HUGHES I like a lot of stuff -- the more stuff the better. My philosophy is that you can never have too muc...
ANN HUGHES The bottom line is he's still gonna die for this crime, ... Now [Cooper] knows what it's like to go ...
ANN HUGHES I think its particularly good for cases that have some real sensitivity, like sexual harassment or a...
ANN HUGHES It is growing exponentially, ... It's rapidly increasing because the pressures on the justice system...
ANN HUGHES She is a classic case of how to be more a part of the team. She is popular with the girls and boys (...
ANN HUGHES She is playing for the sake of the team now. She's learned that the little bumps you hit along the w...
ANN HUGHES They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip an...
KATHRYN HUGHES We try really hard to maintain the focus of this day on the kids.
ALLEN HUGHES As far as we're concerned, they are the real stars of the event.
ALLEN HUGHES It really is about a whole lot of people working together that really can make a difference if you b...
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