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| | Langston Hughes Life Stories, Books, & Links |
 | | On this day in 1967 Langston Hughes died, aged sixty-five. |
| | Hughes was one of the most influential and respected of Black American voices in the middle decades of the century, writing prolifically in many genres, and almost exclusively on racial themes. |
| | It spoke of Black writers and poets, 'who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration,' where a talented Black writer would prefer to be considered a poet, not a Black poet, which to Hughes meant he subconsciously wanted to write like a white poet. |
| www.todayinliterature.com /biography/langston.hughes.asp (443 words) |
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