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= Langston Hughes =



Born in Joplin Missouri on Febuary 1, 1902 Langston Hughes died in New York of complications from prostate cancer in May 22, 1967, in New York. Langston Hughes was 65 yrs. old Langston Hughes was an american poet,novelist,playwright,short story writer, and a columist. Hughes was known for his writings and poems about the Harlem Renaissance. Langston was the son of Carrie Mercer Langston and father James Nathaniel Hughes. Hughes attended Lincoln University where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1929. After graduating school Hughes worked many different jobs one of them was a crewmen on the S.S.Malone after theat he started doing white collar jobs one was a busboy after Huhges quit his white collar jobs he moved back to Harlem as his primary home for the remander of his life. Hughes's influence into his works was Walt Whitman. Langston Hughes's most known poems and stories are The Weary Blue, The Ways of White Folks, Dream, Children's Rhymes, and Justice.

** Children's Rhymes ** By what sends the white kids I ain't sent: I know I can't be [|President.] What don't bug them white kids sure bugs me: We know everybody ain't free.

Lies written down for white folks ain't for us a-tall: //Liberty And Justice--// Huh!--//For All?//

** Dreams(1932) ** Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a [|barren field] [|Frozen with snow.]

** Justice ** That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were [|eyes.]