Langston+Hughes

Part A: Biographical Information. Biographical Langston Hughes was born in Joplin Missouri on February 1, 1902. His parent divorced and he was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen years old. His father moved to mexico and his mother remarried and moved to Cleavland Ohio.
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 * D.O.B.Feb. 1/ 1902 D.O.D. May 22/1967
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 * He attented Colombia University for about 2 years. In 1926, Langston finished schooling at Lincoln University. After Colombia University he had an aray of jobs consisting of a cook, launderer, and busboy, later traveling to Africa and Europe working as a seaman.
 * Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman were his primary influences, is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties.
 * His work never related to just his experience but the whole black community as one. rythmycal language
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My old man's a white old man And my old mother's black. If I ever cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If I ever cursed my black old mother And wished [|she were in hell],
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I'm sorry for that [|evil wish] and now i wish her well [|My old man died in a fine big house]. My Ma died in a shack. I wonder where i'm going to die, Being neither [|white nor black]?

MADAM AND THE PHONE BILL

code You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was //then//!

I'm mad and disgusted With that Negro now. I don't pay no REVERSED CHARGES nohow.

You say, I will pay it-- Else you'll take out my phone? You better let My phone alone.

I didn't ask him To telephone me. Roscoe knows darn well LONG DISTANCE Ain't free.

If I ever catch him, Lawd, have pity! Calling me up From Kansas City.

Just to say he loves me! I knowed that was so. Why didn't he tell me some'n I don't know?

For instance, what can Them other girls do That Alberta K. Johnson Can't do--//and more, too//?

What's that, Central? You say you don't care Nothing about my Private affair?

Well, even less about your PHONE BILL, does I care!

Un-humm-m! . . . Yes! You say I gave my O.K.? Well, that O.K. you may keep--

But I //sure// ain't gonna pay! code

MY PEOPLE The [|night] is beautiful, So the faces of my people.

The [|stars] are beautiful, So the eyes of my people.

Beautiful, also, is the sun. Beautiful, also, are the [|souls] of my people.

The meaning behind My People is that african americans are equal to the white man's view of himself. Through that time of predjudice Langston Hughes writes about the hardships of his people with little of his own expierience.