Hughes

Famous quotes containing the word hughes:

“Clean the spittoons.
The steam in hotel kitchens,
And the smoke in hotel lobbies,
And the slime in hotel spittoons:
Part of my life.”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

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

I, too, am America.”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

“The mouth of the drowned dog. After long rain the land
Was sodden as the bed of an ancient lake,
Treed with iron and birdless.”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)