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@zellieimani, Black Royalty, shared:
Negroes,
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble, and kind:
Beware the day
They change their mind.-Warning by #LangstonHughes
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And finally, “The N*gro Speaks of Rivers” (https://youtu.be/kiCqOzabU6A?si=MC1K7YwmKdn7yIeK) performed by the greatest coloratura contralto Marian Anderson. This 1941 composition is based on the poem “The N*gro Speaks of Rivers” by Margaret Bonds’ muse, co-conspirator and close friend Langston Hughes, who she met in the late 1930s after she graduated from college where she fell in love with his writing.
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On 1 February 1902: #LangstonHughes, American #poet (Weary Blues), #playwright (Mulatto), and librettist (Troubled Island), born in Joplin, Missouri (d. 1967).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🥀🕯️ -
"What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?"- Langston Hughes, Dream Deferred (1951)
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If you haven't seen *Sinners* yet, do it today, and not just for Buddy Guy, but for the brilliant metaphor at the heart of the plot.
The mighty poet Langston Hughes was a master of metaphor. He was also a skilled journalist. He spent half a year in Spain, covering the civil war there for the (Black) American press. His dispatches should be read alongside his poetry about the Spanish war. The points he makes are the same, but his journalistic work is more straightforward. Consider for instance, this fragment from his article “Soldiers from Many Lands United in Spanish Fight” (December 18, 1937):
“Fascism is what the Ku Klux Klan will be when it combines with the Liberty League and starts using machine guns and airplanes instead of a few yards of rope. Fascism is oppression, terror, and brutality on a big scale.”
That just about sums it up, doesn't it? But as insightful as he was as a journalist, at heart Langston Hughes was first and foremost a poet. In his famous poem, “Love Letter from Spain” (1937), an anonymous volunteer in Spain tells his beloved at home that “Fascists is Jim Crow peoples, honey – / and here we shoot ‘em down.”
Far be it from me to critique the greatest poet of his era, and as great a metaphor for Jim Crow that the fascist menace may be, I feel Langston Hughes's metaphor has finally been outdone (no mean feat, that) by this movie *Sinners*.
In the movie, "Jim Crow peoples" are portrayed as vampires. How spot on is that? Does blood not drip from fascist fangs even today? They suck on the neck of the world. Fortunately, in real life, silver bullets are not needed. Lead works just fine. Even better is disinfecting daylight. Evil needs the dark. Expose them, and they are doomed. Would Langston not approve?
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Note to All Nazis, Fascists and Klansmen
Poem By #LangstonHughes - 1943 #BlackHistory"You delight,
So it would seem,
At making mince-meat of my dream.If you keep on,
Before you’re through,
I’ll make mince-meat
Out of you." -
Graduation – Jacob Lawrence
by Jacob Lawrence (1948, ink over graphite on paper, 72 × 49.8 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
This work, Graduation, is one of six drawings that Jacob Lawrence made as illustrations for Langston Hughes’s 1949 book of poetry, One-Way Ticket.
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A quotation from Langston Hughes
Sometimes, even if a woman no longer wants you in her arms, she wants you in her heart.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright
Story (1943), “Sometimes I Wonder” [Narrator], The Best of Simple (1961)More info about this quote: wist.info/hughes-langston/7936…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #langstonhughes #love #passion #relationship #sentiment
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“Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean ―
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”– Langston Hughes
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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑵𝒆𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆: 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆 & 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒈-𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 -
This is getting challenging. What are we to do with the Suffering Child question? And on which form of suffering do I plant my flag of resistance? Dostoevsky and Langston Hughes both offer clues.
#podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread
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"In lighter moments, Hughes stood among black soldiers such as Thaddeus Battle and Bunny Rucker like a schoolboy hearing gossip about a girl he just met. In fact, his laugh often sounded as if he was being tickled. Staying for five months, housed mostly in the Alianza overlooking Madrid, Hughes took on the imagined voice of one of the international brigades’ black soldiers in two poems written as “Postcard from Spain” (1938) and “Letter from Spain” (1937).
Addressed to fictional family members back home in Alabama, the poems are dated and signed “Johnny.” The letter imagines befriending a “Moorish prisoner” who has been duped into fighting for Franco while the postcard exults a newfound feeling of companionship as “Folks over here don’t treat me/ Like white folks used to do.”
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The video player is currently playing an ad.Hughes sent the nearly identical first draft of his “Postcard” as a literal postcard to Louise Thompson, writing it on the back of an image of Hans Beimler, a German Communist Party member who was killed leading forces against Spanish Nationalists in 1936, before Hughes arrived. Though the subject-matter was serious, his sense of humor could not be contained as he playfully signed off Salud, Johnny,' dating the postcard 'Sept. the who? 1937.'"
https://lithub.com/when-langston-hughes-went-to-report-on-the-spanish-civil-war/
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The right poem for today: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907/let-america-be-america-again.
"I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak."#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #LangstonHughes #freedom #America
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Springfield, Illinois, is a Lincoln-haunted town, but other attractions can be found there. Vachel Lindsay, once a much-celebrated American poet, haunts these neighborhoods. And poet Langston Hughes also hallows Springfield’s past.
#LangstonHughes #VachelLindsay #AbrahamLincoln #Springfield #Travel #Poetry #LiteraryTourism #writershomes #poets
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#NJ Hall of Fame: Time to add #SenatorCoryBooker to this illustrious list?! #Democracy #newjersey #stanford #langstonhughes #GardenState #GOAT #uspol https://corybooker.com
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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕: "𝑹𝒖𝒅𝒚𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑲𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈'𝒔 '𝑰𝒇' & 𝑰𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒚-𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 -
Where do we find irony, anyway? And how? An answer in an offer of cheese.
https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/kiplings-if-and-irony-hunting
#podcast #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #irony #dramaticirony #rudyardkipling #if #scotland #readingstrategies #langstonhughes #suicidesnote #gwendolynbrooks #werealcool
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Langston Hughes Slept Here: A tour of the Vachel Lindsay Home
Springfield, Illinois, is a Lincoln-haunted town, but other attractions can be found there. Vachel Lindsay, once a much-celebrated American poet, haunts these neighborhoods. And poet Langston Hughes also hallows Springfield’s past.
#LangstonHughes #VachelLindsay #AbrahamLincoln #Springfield #Travel #Poetry #LiteraryTourism #writershomes
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Tired
By Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two —
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.(Manually typed from a graphic on social media. Verified with Wikiquote.)
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"I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me." — #LangstonHughes #BlackHistory
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“Love Letter From Spain,” by #LangstonHughes
"Fascists is Jim Crow peoples, honey-
And here we shoot ‘em down."https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/peacetestimonies/files/original/084e052e0eaa5e02a4dfa992ab6a4a9d.pdf
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“What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.Or does it explode?”
― #langstonhughes
#blackhistorymonth -
10/10 🧵
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!#LangstonHughes #LetAmericaBeAmericaAgain #Justice #Election2024 #2024Election #USPolitics #MAGA
