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#1

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

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#2

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
― Langston Hughes

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#3

“I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: death, desperation, drowning, poetry, suicide

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#4

“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: aspirations, determination, dreams

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#5

“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: humor

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#6

“To some people
Love is given,
To others
Only Heaven.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

tags: love

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#7

“I asked you, baby,
If you understood-
You told me that you didn't,
But you thought you would.”
― Langston Hughes

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#8

“The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss”
― Langston Hughes

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#9

“When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.”
― Langston Hughes

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#10

“Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake”
― Langston Hughes

tags: life-is-love

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#11

“When a man starts out to build a world,
He starts first with himself”
― Langston Hughes

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#12

“Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

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#13

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: freedom, self

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#14

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

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#15

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison

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#16

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

tags: love

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#17

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: labels

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#18

“You are your best thing”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

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#19

“Love is never any better than the lover.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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#20

“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”
― Toni Morrison

tags: fear, inspiration

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#21

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

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#22

“Lonely, ain't it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

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#23

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: inspirational

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#24

“Lonely was much better than alone.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

tags: solitude

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#25

“Anything dead coming back to life hurts.”
― Toni Morrison

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#26

“It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

tags: heartbreak, miss

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#27

“He wants to put his story next to hers.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

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#28

“if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: love

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#29

“A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.”
― Toni Morrison

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#30

“Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder.
And I the eye of the storm.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

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