Hughes, Langston

1. A twentieth-century African-American author known for his poems about the black experience in the United States. He was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance .

Notes

A famous line from one of his poems is “What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” Lorraine Hansbury, a celebrated African-American playwright, named her first play, A Raisin in the Sun , after this line.

Example Sentences

That, as Langston Hughes would say, is deep like the rivers.

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But what Langston Hughes called "the quarter of the Negroes," is not the area of our world most threatened by a falling sky.

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