Leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated Black culture, joy, and resilience through jazz-inflected poetry that spoke to the soul of a people.
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
"I, too, sing America."
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
"My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
— Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America.
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot..."
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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