The Big Sea quotes
8 quotes from The Big Sea by Langston Hughes, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
About Langston Hughes
Life is a big sea / full of many fish. / I let down my nets / and pull.
Melodramatic maybe, it seems to me now. But then it was like throwing a million bricks out of my heart when I threw the books into the water.
It was the period when the Negro was in vogue. I was there. I had a swell time while it lasted. But I thought it wouldn't last long. For how could a large and enthusiastic number of people be crazy about Negroes forever?
The ordinary Negroes hadn't heard of the Negro Renaissance. And if they had, it hadn't raised their wages any.
I got to the Gare du Nord in Paris early one February morning with only seven dollars in my pockets. I didn't know anybody in Paris.
Harlem was like a great magnet for the Negro intellectual, pulling him from everywhere.
I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved.
Literature is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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