As I learn from you, I guess you learn From me --- although You're older --- and white And somewhat more free. ― Langston Hughes

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Because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet. ― Langston Hughes

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My soul has grown deep like the rivers. ― 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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Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it. ― Langston Hughes

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Tell all my mourners To mourn in red- Cause there ain't no sense In my bein' dead. ― Langston Hughes

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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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God in his infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise- So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise. ― Langston Hughes

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I will not take ‘but’ for an answer. ― Langston Hughes

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I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books — where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas. ― Langston Hughes

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