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

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

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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. — Richard Bach

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I guess when you're on 'Blue Peter' there's that goody-two-shoes image which people find attractive. - Konnie Huq

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

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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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Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. ― 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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The prerequisite for writing is having something to say. ― Langston Hughes

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