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

“Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
― Langston Hughes

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”
― Langston Hughes

“So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love--
But for livin' I was born.”
― Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

“Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.

Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,....”
― Langston Hughes, The Big Sea

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.

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

“Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor --
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now --
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.”
― Langston Hughes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder”
― Toni Morrison

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lena Horne

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
― Lena Horne

“you have to be taught to be secondclass;your not born that way”
― Lena Horne

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“You are not alone.”
― Michael Jackson

“nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Liar's Game

“no expectations, no disappointments!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Sleeping with Strangers

“wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Liar's Game