Langston Hughes and the *Chicago Defender* Quotes

“The Negroes of the New World created jazz, but now it belongs to everybody—our gift of rhythm to all the peoples of the earth.”
― Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes and the *Chicago Defender*: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62

“Americans are notoriously bad travelers and complain loudly about the inconveniences they encounter abroad.”
― Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes and the *Chicago Defender*: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62