When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. … - Langston Hughes

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If the untimely battlefield deaths of generations of American heroes have taught us nothing else, it should be this unalterable fact: what you do with your time here on earth is far more important than the time you had to do it. Those who live most are those who love most, who act the noblest and do their best.

Langston Hughes

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

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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.

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A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man is free

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I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

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I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.

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