"I've known rivers: ancient, dusky…" — Langston Hughes

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J'ai connu des fleuves : des fleuves anciens et sombres

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“To make words sing, a poet must have music in his soul.”

Langston Hughes

“In this world, goodness is overlooked ”

“In the darkness, I am invisible. I am the teeming future.”

“Life is for the living, death is for the dead. Let life be like music and death a note unsaid”

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