Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist. He is noted as having been a creator of jazz poetry and as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, an African American cultural movement that occurred during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Go to Quote / Comment
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. Go to Quote / Comment
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me. Go to Quote / Comment
As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me—... Go to Quote / Comment
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer. Go to Quote / Comment