Langston Hughes Novelist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Feb 1902
- Died: May 22, 1967
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new 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 when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
dreams
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
being cool & humor
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
humor
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
change
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
dreams & life
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
beauty, happiness & nature
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
nature