Famous quotes containing the words mercer and/or langston:
“When an irresistible force such as you meets an old immovable object like me.”
—Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)
“In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)