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

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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

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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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I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world. ― Anthony Bourdain

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Broken crayons still color. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

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If no tender words are spoken, no tender hearts can be broken.

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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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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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