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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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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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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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