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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
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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 ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.
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I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
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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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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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