Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
LANGSTON HUGHESMost musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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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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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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