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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.

Langston Hughes

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Beautiful Book Language People Suffering
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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Discover Life Yourself
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Care Cry People Soul Yourself
I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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Blind Body Eyes Hands Inspirational Mindset Motivational Power See World
Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Affect Crazy Drive Love Relationship Yourself
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.
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Interest Object Photograph Reproduction Value
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Big Life Myself
I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Heaven Myself
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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Believe Creative Direction Politics Reaction Success Thinking Writing
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Grave Himself Poet Poetry Politics
The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Life Music One Liner Rhythm
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Rain Sing Song
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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Happiness Music People Poor
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Dreams Explode Sun
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Laughter Yourself
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Dreams One Liner

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