“Violent anger makes me physically ill.”
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Writer, editor, lecturer Langston Hughes achieved fame as a poet during the burgeoning of the arts known as the Harlem Renaissance, but those who label him "a Harlem Renaissance poet" have restricted his fame to only one genre and decade. In addition to his work as a poet, Hughes was a novelist, columnist, playwright, and essayist, and though he is most closely associated with Harlem, his world travels influenced his writing in a profound way. Langston Hughes followed the example of Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of his early poetic influences, to become the second African American to earn a living as a writer. His long and distinguished career produced volumes of diverse genres and inspired the work of countless other African American writers. --From Gale Cengage Learning Free resources
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“Violent anger makes me physically ill.”
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“Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.”
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“Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems w...”
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“The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.”
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“Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.”
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“I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.”
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