Langston Hughes est un poète, nouvelliste, dramaturge et éditorialiste américain du XXe siècle. Sa renommée est due en grande partie à son implication dans le mouvement culturel communément appelé Renaissance de Harlem qui a secoué Harlem dans les années 1920. Quelques-unes de ses œuvres ont été publiées en France. Wikipedia
“You talk like they
don’t kick dreams
around downtown.”
"Comment on Curb"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
“Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.”
"Democracy"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
“Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.”
"Song for a Dark Girl" (l. 11-12), from Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
“Good evening, daddy
I know you’ve heard
The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dream deferred”
"Boogie: 1 a.m."
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
“The night is beautiful,
So are the faces of my people.”
"My People," in the magazine Poems in Crisis (October 1923); reprinted in The Weary Blues (1926)
“I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers," from The Weary Blues (1926)
“Why should it be my loneliness,
Why should it be my song,
Why should it be my dream
deferred
overlong?”
"Tell Me"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Let America Be America Again (1935)
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, V. 13, The Big Sea (2002), p. 36
The Big Sea (1940)
"Same in Blues"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Let America Be America Again (1935)
"Alabama Earth (at Booker Washington's grave)," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers (1941), ed. Arna Bontemps
"I, Too", in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959); it is also often referred to as "I, Too, Sing America"
