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Langston Hughes Quotes

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

Langston Hughes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967

Topics

Children Great Proud Help Books

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

Father Teacher Woman School Me Name

I like when a guy wears a T-shirt, and you can see a little curve of the muscle sticking out. That's sexy!

Jennifer Morrison

Sexy You Muscle T-Shirt See Out

I respect Conor McGregor a lot because this man changed everything in the UFC.

Respect Man Everything Because UFC

You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.

Time Responsibility You Person Need

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

World Over Little Population Almost

Being a good mother is really so hard and so important, and it's this thing that all people long for. Think of all the soldiers who cry out for their mothers on the battlefield as they die. It's a primal relationship.

Good Mother Relationship People Die

Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.

Love People Speak Island Playful

The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence.

Life Intelligence Me Literature You

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

Jonathan Richman

Feel Long Sometimes Hospital Playing

People understand about family; people understand about being in situations where you have to be brave. People get falling in love.

Deborah Mailman

Family Love People Brave You Get

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Myself Me Nothing Laughing Than

I don't have a writer's room. I write all the shows myself. Ninety-one episodes a season, I'm sitting there at the computer writing and writing and writing because I want the voice to be authentic so that the audience is hearing from me and not other writers.

Myself Me Writing Voice Sitting

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