One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre. - Robin Williams

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But was that why Negroes were poor, because they were dancers, jazzers, clowns? . . . The other way round would be better: dancers because of their poverty; singers because they suffered; laughing all the time because they must forget.... It’s more like that, thought Sandy. ― 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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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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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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Because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet. ― Langston Hughes

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Just what is a liberal?" asked Simple. "Well, as nearly as I can tell, a liberal is a nice man who acts decently toward people, talks democratically, and often is democratic in his personal life, but does not stand up very well in action when some real social issue like Jim Crow comes up. ― Langston Hughes,

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Poetry is the human soul entire Squeezed like a lemon or a lime, Drop by drop into atomic words". ― Langston Hughes

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

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