Ellie’s Reviews > The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World > Status Update

I think another big difference between St. John and Rochester is the origin of why they enjoy Jane's directness in speech -- I think Rochester is genuinely excited by it, he finds it stimulating in the original sense of the word, and he wants to take it further. For St. John, instead, it's not that it is good that it's there, so much as that it might as well be used if it is to be there at all.

"I soon forgot storm in music."

I guess I never really internalized the emotional reality of what it felt like to live through the Red Scare — it’s like what conservatives *say* they feel about “cancel culture” — but, like, actually real.

Oh no, the comeback tour is really tugging at my heartstrings - but I know that because it's happening in the fourth chapter, and not the twelfth, that it's all going to go wrong soon, and I don't think I can stand it again.

So things I didn't know: That Langston Hughes advocated against the internment of Japanese citizens during World War II -- which means that George Takei and Langston Hughes were once alive at the same time, which means that Langston Hughes is literally in living memory still, which is cool to think about -- and also that Hughes advocated for Indian Independence too.

We stan an intersectional king.

“Thus do the outlaws... of one generation... become the conservatives of the next.”