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Langston Hughes

James Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his...
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	FURTHER READING


		Poems About Graduation
		All the World's a Stage by William Shakespeare

		First Gestures by Julia Spicher Kasdorf

		My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth

		The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

		The Writer by Richard Wilbur


		Black History
		A Negro Love Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar

		A Song for Many Movements by Audre Lorde

		American History by Michael S. Harper

		Believing in Iron by Yusef Komunyakaa

		Black Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson

		Derrick Poem (The Lost World) by Terrance Hayes

		Flounder by Natasha Trethewey

		For the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young

		Frederick Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar

		Harriet Tubman by Eloise Greenfield

		homage to my hips by Lucille Clifton

		I'm A Fool To Love You by Cornelius Eady

		La Vie C'est La Vie by Jessie Redmon Fauset

		Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson

		Quatrains by Gwendolyn Bennett

		Reunion 2005 by Rita Dove

		Song of the Son by Jean Toomer

		Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

		The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

		The White House by Claude McKay

		We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

		We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Dreams
by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf/Vintage. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated. All rights reserved.

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