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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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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The longer I go about living, I see it’s the relationship that is most meaningful. – William Shatner

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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy. ― Booker T. Washington

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

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

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We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.- Michael Jordan

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

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