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- “My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”Langston Hughes
- “Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”Langston Hughes
- “My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite pub…”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
Explore Simplicity
- “....the increasingly common ideology that assures people they’re right about what they believe.... is, howeve…”Chuck Klosterman
- “Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.”Ben Folds
- “Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.”Criss Jami
Sleep: more sayings
- “I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned in…”Sean Combs
- “My goofiest-sounding secret is that I also believe in magic. Sometimes I call it God and sometimes I call it…”Tavi Gevinson
- “I keep a notebook on my bedside table and write poetry every night before I go to sleep. It's been something…”Lexi Underwood
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Books by Langston Hughes
Mule bone
1991
The weary blues
1926
The big sea
1940
Short stories
1996
The best of Simple
1961