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Langston Hughes

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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.


— Langston Hughes


#equality

What happens to a dream deferred?


— Langston Hughes


#dreams #poem #poetry #dreams

Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.


— Langston Hughes


#men

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas


— Langston Hughes


#kansas #suffering #beauty

Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want freedom Just as you.


— Langston Hughes


#freedom

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.


— Langston Hughes


#beat #drops #head #kiss #liquid

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.


— Langston Hughes


#everybody #i #lord #me #means

I will not take "but" for an answer.


— Langston Hughes


#i #take #will

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.


— Langston Hughes


#being #bore #poor #such

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.


— Langston Hughes


#begins #being #black #censorship #color






About Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes Quotes




Did you know about Langston Hughes?

As the work demands limited his time for writing Hughes quit the position to work as a busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel. The following year Hughes enrolled in Lincoln University a historically black university in Chester County Pennsylvania. 1932
Let America Be America Again 1938
Shakespeare in Harlem Knopf 1942
Freedom's Plow 1943
Fields of Wonder Knopf 1947
One-Way Ticket 1949
Montage of a Dream Deferred Holt 1951
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes 1958
Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz Hill & Wang 1961
The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times 1967
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Knopf 1994


Novels and short story collections
Not Without Laughter.

Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue" which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue". James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1 1902 – May 22 1967) was an American poet social activist novelist playwright and columnist.

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