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

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To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...

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

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Call no man happy till he is dead. ― Aeschylus

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

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God in his infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise- So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise. ― Langston Hughes

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Don't ask me why, because I'm not even going to tell you dead. I'm never going to tell you that I love you even if she loves you.

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A dead end is just a good place to turn around. — Naomi Judd

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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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