J. B. Hughes Quotes

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

You shouldn’t say I can’t until you’ve tried.

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.

Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.

Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather: now I hold Creation in my foot.

Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your community, in your city but most importantly peace in this world.

I believe you should pray as hard on those up days as you do on the down days.

Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

Life dosent frighten me at all.

There is no color line in art.

Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.

Where white is black and black is white, I won.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

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

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

I was born when you kissed me.

There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.

I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.

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

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.

With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.

Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

Remember, it is only exposed problems that can be resolved.

There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

All the physical comes from the mental.

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

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

What happens to a dream deferred?

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.