Friday, July 9, 2010
Langston Hughes
Before becoming one of America’s most revered poets and civil rights advocates, Hughes spent his time travelling. On one journey aboard a steamer to West Africa, he decided literature and poetry had failed to deliver the true texture of the real world. He then tossed every book he owned overboard – except for Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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