Hughes Bought

Famous quotes containing the words hughes and/or bought:

    I was so sick last night I
    Didn’t hardly know my mind.
    So sick last night I
    Didn’t know my mind.
    I drunk some bad licker that
    Almost made me blind.
    —Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

    Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa.... We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bought them; white people changed their names ... my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?
    Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)