It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. - Daniel Kahneman

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The wonderful thing is that it’s so incredibly easy to be kind. – Ingrid Newkirk

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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. Then let us hurry, comrades, The road to find. ― Langston Hughes

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My soul has grown deep like the rivers. ― Langston Hughes

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This, the dream and the dreamer, wandering in the desert from Hopkinsville to Vienna in love with a streetwalker named Music.… ― Langston Hughes

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The prisoner imagines freedom to be more wonderful than it is.

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Good people are not that good. To tell the truth, if I were white, no matter how much I loved Negroes, I doubt that I would submit myself to Jim Crow living conditions just to prove my love.” “Neither would I,” said Simple. “Then you would not be very good, either.” “No,” said Simple, “but I would be white. ― Langston Hughes

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Just because I loves you– That's de reason why Ma soul is full of color Like de wings of a butterfly. Just because I loves you That's de reason why Ma heart's a fluttering aspen leaf When you pass by. ― Langston Hughes

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The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change.

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ― Langston Hughes

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