Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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