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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
— Langston Hughes
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
— Langston Hughes
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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
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
— Langston Hughes
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
— Langston Hughes
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
— Langston Hughes
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