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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!
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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There is no color line in art.
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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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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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