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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

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

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This, the dream and the dreamer, wandering in the desert from Hopkinsville to Vienna in love with a streetwalker named Music.… ― Langston Hughes

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Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don't make it wait any longer. ― Steve Maraboli

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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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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

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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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