When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
LANGSTON HUGHESThe rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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