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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
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I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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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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