The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
LANGSTON HUGHESI’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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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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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human 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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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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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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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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