Langston Hughes Quotes
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
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When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.
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I am always open to a conversation. I am always open to a bipartisan compromise.
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I live on broken wittles - and I sleep on the coals.
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I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
