Consider This Quote

Consider This Quote: Langston Hughes On Audacity

Image of Langston Hughes
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 are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs.

If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We will build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we will stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
Langston Hughes, American poet, novelist and civil rights activist (quote from the essay The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain published in "The Nation" [16 June 1926])
It's not every week you get to gaze upon a living legend of the stage and screen in the American Midwest. Sure, Chicago sees its ...
Stage & Theatre

That One Time I Met A Living Legend

It's not every week you get to gaze upon a living legend of the stage and screen in the American Midwest. Sure, Chicago sees its ...

Read More
Why This Is Awesome: This photo was taken on a Sunday, just not this past Sunday. While many of us are engaged in self-isolation or at least restricted movement during this Covid-19 outbreak, some of us are still making our way to local parks and
Lotus Moments

Lotus Moment: Sunday In The Park

Why This Is Awesome: This photo was taken on a Sunday, just not this past Sunday. While many of us are engaged in self-isolation or at least restricted movement during this Covid-19 outbreak, some of us are still making our way to local parks and

Read More
Wise words from one of the most brilliant voices and personalities in Irish literary and cultural history
Steal This Quote

Steal This Quote: Oscar Wilde

Wise words from one of the most brilliant voices and personalities in Irish literary and cultural history

Read More