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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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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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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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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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Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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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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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.
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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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