(ThyBlackMan.com) Langston Hughes, one of the most significant ... that make up the American identity. Inspiration and Themes ...

Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B,” from Collected Poems ... (For me, it was a poster that my mother gave me, enjoining me to “Hold fast to dreams / For when dreams go / Life is a barren field / ...

Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams ... alive ...