Langston Hughes Quotes

I was so sick last night I Didn't hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn't know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that Almost made me blind.

Langston Hughes

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• Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.

  

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• I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

  

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• I was so sick last night I Didn't hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn't know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that Almost made me blind.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Night