Langston Hughes Quotes

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes Historical events

When Langston Hughes finishes high school he moves with his father. While he is on the train he decides to write a poem. Also as well while in Mexico his father agrees to support him in his education career, but with a career in studying engineering. By his father helping him out with his education he was able to learn more and help him out with his writing.

After joining Columbia university Langston liked Harlem and its goods vibes but did not like the discrimination he was getting at the university and left after just one year at the school. This impacted him because he finally got his first taste of discrimination couldn't support it.

Langston after leaving university got a job on a ship and was able to travel around the world.This gave him a new experience and gave him a chance to see the world.

While living in Washington working at the Wardman Park Hotel was able to meet a very famous poet Vachel Linsay while dinning in the restaurant. He slipped some poems to he and after that he was in touch with editors of Knopf. This was important in his life because it was his very first big break because he was in touch with a very big and good source to for what he wanted to do when he got older.

Langston Hughes first big break was in 1926 when Alfred A. Knopf published his first book of, a poetry collection, named The Weary Blues. This was a very big break for him because it was a lift off on his career. This gave him a lot of experience and big publicity.

I AM

I am Black.
I am a writer.
I am a nephew of an ex-slave owner.
I am an educated man.
I am a man with cancer.

All this helped out Langston Hughes because first of all being black at this time period was very difficult because of racism and segregation. So, with this racism and segregation he was not allowed to published book and poems. Also being nephew of an ex-slave owner gave him a chance of know what it was like in being both cultures as in white and black. Him being educated gave him an opportunity that other black people in his community couldn't get. Also being educated could of inspired other black people in his community and help out and inspire other people in his community. Him having cancer probably inspired him to be more artistic and have more of a thrive to do and finish more works before he died so his legacy could live on forever.

Brave New World Epigraph

Utopias seem to be much more achievable than we formerly believed them to be. Now we find ourselves presented with another alarming question: how do we prevent utopias from coming into existence? …Utopias are possible. Life tends towards the formation of utopias. Perhaps a new century will begin, a century in which intellectuals and the privileged will dream of ways to eliminate utopias and return to a non-utopic society less “perfect” and more free.”

Work cited page:
http://www.shmoop.com/brave-new-world/epigraph.html

My MODERNIST

I chose James Mercer Langston Hughes because he was the only poet that I knew on the list that I got from Dr.Preston. It was a good thing that he was on there because then I would have been stuck wit this assignment that he gave us. Back to the topic Also I learned a little about him in my history class and it would be easier to talk about him if I get asked what I know about him.