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10 Essential Langston Hughes Poems, Including “Harlem” and “I, Too”
Five years after his first poem was published, Langston Hughes wrote in The Nation, “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.” He abided by these words throughout his career, centering everyday lives of Black people like himself, uncommon subject matter at a time when legal segregation reigned.
Lyrical yet direct, Hughes’ poems made him a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance and remain influential today.
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His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, followed in Throughout his work, Hughes portrayed working-class African Americans in a range of common experiences, both positive and negative.
The New York City transplant was among the first poe
