Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hugheswas an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 February 1902
CityJoplin, MO
CountryUnited States of America
dream dry happens raisin
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?
amazed chosen dylan work
I am amazed that my work of Dylan was chosen as his portrait,
summer rain humor
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
equality america air
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
summer rain heart
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.
crystals splinters stairs
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
heaven-sent heaven wish
I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
resurrection poet graveyard
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
kissing rivers faces
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
summer winter giving
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
eggs patient life-is
Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake
rhythm-of-life jazz life-is
The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
details walt findings
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
depressing simple nonsense
Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.