We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
LANGSTON HUGHES
LANGSTON HUGHES
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Langston Hughes102 quotes“We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.”
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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Langston HughesLangston Hughes Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
James ClearJames Clear The people who love you will see through the walls that you’ve built up and will love you even more.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
Charlie MungerCharlie Munger I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn’t due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
Gary VaynerchukGary Vaynerchuk When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Grant CardoneGrant Cardone The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
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