J. B. Hughes Quotes
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.
God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.
Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.
Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.
Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company
I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.
Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.
This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven)
The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess?
What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.
We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.
The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death
The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.
Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind.
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.
Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.
Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands full of dust.
The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.
The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it
Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation!
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
