The Big Sea Quotes

“...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,....”
― Langston Hughes, The Big Sea

“You see, books had been happening to me.”
― Langston Hughes, The Big Sea

“For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.”
― Langston Hughes, The Big Sea

“Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books-- where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables as we did in Kansas.”
― Langston Hughes, The Big Sea

“The silence inside the library, the big chairs, and long tables, and the fact that the library was always there and didn’t seem to have a mortgage on it, or any sort of insecurity about it—all of that made me love it.”
― Langston Hughes, The Big Sea

“...I learnt that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it, even if in the beginning you think you can't do it at all. ”
― Langston Hughes, The Big Sea

“All of us know that the gay and sparkling life of the so-called Negro Renaissance of the ’20’s was not so gay and sparkling beneath the surface as it looked.”
― Langston Hughes, The Big Sea

“The cream of the Negro musicians then in France, like Cricket Smith on the trumpet, Louis Jones on the violin, Palmer Jones at the piano, Frank Withers on the clarinet, and Buddy Gilmore at the drums, would weave out music that would almost make your heart stand still at dawn in a Paris night club in the rue Pigalle, when most of the guests were gone and you were washing the last pots and pans in a two-by-four kitchen, with the fire in the range dying and the one high window letting the soft dawn in.”
― Langston Hughes, The Big Sea

“I learnt that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it, even if in the beginning you think you can’t do it at all.”
― Langston Hughes, The Big Sea