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 * Notes on Langston’s inspirations **

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 * He didn't live with all his parents
 * He had a sad childhood
 * He was respected by his (white) peers in school
 * He thought that being (black) would make life hard for him
 * He had a miserable life making money
 * He tried to pay for his college money by being a bus boy
 * He used his poetry to show himself things like themes in racism
 * He went to college in 1925
 * He graduated in 1929
 * He was a yearbook editor in his senior year of high school
 * He did well academicaly
 * He had a thing for poetry
 * He had his poems edited by W.E.B Du Bois
 * He spent six months in paris
 * He went to college, started, and then ran out of money so he had to quit
 * He lived with his mom
 * He had a man named carl van vechten published his volume of verse. hughes's first book the weary blues
 * He wrote an essay that won in a crisis literary contest
 * He had many publishers enjoy and publish his poems
 * he won many prizes for a book on improving race relations

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 * Langston belived that poets can express themselves any way they want...
 * he was not afraid to express how he felt while writing...
 * he was a optemist...
 * he saw the world through different points of views...
 * langston hughes wrote alot of poems...
 * He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania ...
 * in Lincoln, Illinois, langston Hughes began writing poetry...
 * langston Hughes wrote eleven plays...
 * Langston Hughes died of complications from prostate cancer...
 * Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family...
 * His father didn't think he would be able to make a living at writing...
 * The Negro Speaks of Rivers. would become his most famous poem...
 * traveled the African coast as far south as Angola at age twenty-one, in summer 1923...
 * He wrote of the complexities of this experience in several venues...
 * Hughes joined the assembly of Poetry of the Negro, at the Howard University...
 * he attend the seminal Mbari African Writers Conference at Makerere University College in June 1962...
 * Hughes got the idea to assemble an anthology of African writing for US publication...
 * Hughes received a letter from the lively black-oriented Johannesburg magazine Drum asking if he would serve as one of three judges for a continent-wide short-story contest...
 * Hughes had a problem placing his work with his longtime publisher Alfred A. Knopf...
 * Hughes was a committed internationalist throughout his life...

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 * Hughes first published "My People" in 1923...
 * black gays and lesbians embrace Langston Hughes as part of their community...
 * the NAACP awarded him the Spingarn Medal...
 * He had known rivers, ditches, dives; had known hustlers, winos, dreamers, and old Black mothers of enormous dignity and strength. He spoke of these things, and others, in 62 major works...
 * he died on May 22, 1967...
 * before his 1927 address to the Whitman Foundation, he had published his second book of poems...
 * ("And Blues") are "written after the manner of the Negro folk-songs known as Blues...
 * The Weary Blues had brought the twenty-four-year-old Hughes national attention, and the reviews were overwhelmingly positive...
 * It was over the question of his representations of African Americans that readers grew heated...
 * The Norton Anthology of American Literature and is even missing from The Norton Anthology of African American Literature...
 * ("Glory! Hallelujah!") contains nine of his poems patterned after spirituals, with singers calling out to God...
 * his parents wer devorced...
 * he lived with his grandmother till he was 12...
 * he lived with his mother till the end of highschool...
 * after he finished college he moved to harlem...
 * langston hughes published more than 40 books...
 * he lived till he was sixty five...
 * One of Hughes' essays showed up in the //Nation// in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"...
 * It talked about Black writers and poets, "who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration,"...
 * He wrote in an essay that spoke about, younger Negro artists that intend to express their individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame...
 * Hughes moved more to the center politically during world war two...
 * During a year (1932-1933) spent in the Soviet Union he wrote his most radical verse...
 * he wrote a play called mullato//,// based on the twinned themes of miscegenation and parental rejection, that opened on Broadway in 1935...
 * Hughes wrote other plays, including comedies such as little ham (1936) and a historical drama, emperor of haiti (1936)...
 * Hughes denied that he had ever been a party member, but conceded that some of his radical verse had been "ill-advised"...
 * Hughes always remained loyal to the principles he had laid down for the younger black writers...
 * He could sometimes be bitter...
 * his art is generally overwhelmed by a keen sense of the ideal and by a profound love of humanity, especially "black Americans"...
 * he also wrote a commissioned history of the NAACP...
 * he wrote a text of a much praised pictorial history of black America...
 * his books inspired a musical show, "simply heaven" (1957), that met with some success...
 * his love of gospel music led to other some good stage efforts...
 * He became very prosperous...
 * he always had to work hard for his "measure of prosperity" and sometimes called himself a 'literary sharecropper’ (with a good cause)...
 * he broke new ground with verse accented by the discordant nature of the new bebop jazz...
 * hughes worked with many people...
 * he otained many awards...
 * he was a suporter of bisexual & homosexuality...
 * he loved writing poems...
 * Langston hughes despiesd racism...