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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.

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 do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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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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Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.
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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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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.
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