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

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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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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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Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. - Terry Pratchett

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

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The prerequisite for writing is having something to say. ― Langston Hughes

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I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then. -Post Malone

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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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Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.

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