The man. The poet. The legend. Embodying all three of the above titles, Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era.

Here are 20 inspiring quotes from Langston Hughes. “In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.” ...

here are 8 quotes from life of Langston Hughes. 1. “Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas” – I Wonder as I Wander ...

In large graven letters on the wall of the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall is a quote from poet Langston Hughes: “I, too, am America.” ...

This poem by Langston Hughes was discovered by a rare-books cataloger in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. It was scrawled in the pages of a book called “An Anthology of ...

A Story of Friendship and Betrayal” is an overdue study of the famous yet underdiscussed friendship and literary collaboration between Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. “It is so easy to ...

You might recognize it from Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, where King quotes Hughes forcefully ... And yet still Langston Hughes poem offers us an optimistic vision ...

Bel-Air, the dramatic reboot of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, has tapped star April Parker Jones to recite Langston Hughes’ 1922 poem “Mother to Son” in honor of its 100th anniversary.

when a young Langston Hughes ... speaks volumes. As do Hughes' poems. Taylor quotes a line from one of those poems, "Harlem Night Song," written the year after he met Hurston.

A poetic tribute to Langston Hughes, who was born a hundred years ago Friday. My name is Pov Chin. I'm a student, and I want to become a teacher. I was reading a bunch of poetry. Like over the ...