Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 01. Februar 1901 |
Geburtsort | Joplin, Missouri, U.S. |
Todesort | New_York_City,_New_York |
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Beschreibung | James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue." |
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
