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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.

Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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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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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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