"Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind."

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Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.199, University of Missouri Press

Langston Hughes

#Sweet Quotes #Humble Quotes #Mind Quotes

“[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.”
“The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.”

Source : Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.10, Schwartz & Wade
“I love my country more than anything else.”

Source : Interview with David Asman, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2002.
“Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.”
“In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.”
“If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.”

Source : "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity". Book by Lawrence Lessig, 2004.
“Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the same room and get to be with each other and just hang out.”
“BEAST is very happy because of B2UTIES.. Thank you those who love and care for us..”

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