FastSaying

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

AmericanAmongArtistBe DifferentBetterBlackClassesConsciousCreativeCreative WorkCultureDifferentEnoughEvenFurnishGoingHisLifetimeMannersMatterOutsideRaceStillSufficientWhiteWithoutWork

Related Quotes

Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
— Langston Hughes
AdvancedAmericanAmong
💭💫🎯🌟✨
Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
— Langston Hughes
AndyBetterEven
🎯💫✨📖📖
For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
— William Jay Smith
ArtistBeenComplete
📖🌟💫💫💭
I am amazed that my work of Dylan was chosen as his portrait,
— Langston Hughes
Work
✨💡💫✨💫
You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
— Seth Godin
creative-work
💡💡💫💫✨