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The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

Book by Langston Hughes · 7 quotes · Way, Atheism, Beautiful

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“Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."”