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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Joplin
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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?
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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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