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Nor the manhood to stand up and say. I dare you to come one step nearer, evil world, With your hands of greed seeking to touch my throat, I dare you to come one step nearer me: When you can say that. you will be free! Langston Hughes, "You and your whole race" from (New Haven: Beinecke Library, Yale University, ) Source: Poetry (January 2009)
By Langston Hughes. I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
Langston Hughes on Poets.org With poems, related essays, and links. Profile and poems of Langston Hughes, including audio files and scholarly essays, at the Poetry Foundation. Cary Nelson, "Langston Hughes (1902–1967)" Archived September 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Profile at Modern American Poetry. Beinecke Library, Yale.
1 de jan. de 2001 · Langston Hughes became the voice of Black America in the 1920s, when his first published poems brought him more than moderate success. Throughout his lifetime, his work encompassed both popular lyrical poems, and more controversial political work, especially during the thirties.
31 de mai. de 2023 · Dream-singers, Story-tellers, Dancers, Loud laughers in the hands of Fate— My People. Dish-washers, Elevator-boys, Ladies’ maids, Crap-shooters, Cooks, Waiters, Jazzers, Nurses of babies, Loaders of ships, Porters, Hairdressers, Comedians in vaudeville And band-men in ...
Langston Hughes published more than 25 poems in The Crisis between 1921 and 1926. He began with what would become a signature poem from his body of work, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921). During this time period, Hughes was traveling extensively, working as a mess-boy on merchant vessels or living in Paris.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, and social activist who is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance, a period of great cultural and artistic growth among African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Joplin, Missouri, and raised primarily by his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas.
