"Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on"

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Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.224, University of Missouri Press

Langston Hughes

#Inspirational Quotes #Morning Quotes #Together Quotes

“And I don't regret the rain Or the nights I felt the pain Or the tears I had to cry Some of those times along the way. Every road I had to take, Every time my heart would break, It was just something that I had to get through, To get me to you.”

Source : Song: To Get Me to You
“People don't have to put you in a box. You can have the confidence to move across, and combine and learn from each different practice. They inform each other.”

Source : "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.
“I've tried my best to love you all, all you hypocrites and ***** with your eyes on each other and locks on your doors.”
“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”
“I moved to L.A., and people said that I would never find work, that I would never find good friends, and I feel like I was fortunate enough to find the work, but it wouldn't mean anything unless I had a group of people who could appreciate it.”
“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thingsâ€”a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earringâ€”with immense, even startling power.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories”, p.25, Vintage
“You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.”
“One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.”

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