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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

Langston Hughes

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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Alive Learning Myself Return Stay
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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Forever Goodness Love Regret Return Wasted
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Corner Run Yourself
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Freedom Heart Broken Myself
I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Heaven Myself
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Beautiful Book Language People Suffering
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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Earth God Live Right Teaching Togetherness
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Expectation Love Yourself
Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Break Care Life Patience Perspective
Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Best Friendship Morning Myself Togetherness
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Death Life Live Music Note
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Bird Break Death Deep Dreams Fast Fly Hold Life Wings
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Laughter Yourself
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.
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Dare Morning Myself Start Thinking
Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Leaving Love Old Soul Yourself
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Fortune Hell Summer Taste Winter Yourself

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