Langston Hughes Quotes
Let us all work for the nation that is yet to be but which yet must be.
Langston Hughes, 1902-1967, Poet, Quoted on C-SPAN, May 27, 1991
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At the time, the United States and Great Britain were trying to create a democratic nation in Iraq and having much difficulty.
At the time, there was very little national news in most newspapers and almost none about local areas and peoples other than the newspaper’s town. With the exception of New York and a few other cities, there was no news on the radio and TV had not yet been deployed. Most of the nation was very insular. It would not be until the Eisenhower administration that the national highway system was built. Most American spent their entire lives within 90 miles of their home and knew little about anywhere else other than NY, Chicago, Hollywood, Washington, and San Francisco.
His first gun invention was a machine pistol which he invented in a railroad depot.
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue."
