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  • She continued to read to him almost every evening, just as she had been doing from the time he had come to live with her, stories of adventure and suspense like Sherlock Holmes and Tom Sawyer, as well as poetry—Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and many others.†  (source)
  • It's a Langston Hughes poem called "Dreams," and Cedric reads the first line: "Hold fast to Dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird ..."†  (source)
  • Although I enjoyed and respected Kipling, Poe, Butler, Thackeray and Henley, I saved my young and loyal passion for Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois' "Litany at Atlanta."†  (source)
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  • From "Dream Variation" Langston Hughes October 28, 1959 For years the idea had haunted me, and that night it returned more insistently than ever.†  (source)
  • The Langston Hughes book jumped from my hand and the whole class laughed, everyone but Byron.†  (source)
  • I read through the Langston Hughes stuff real quick but that was a mistake.†  (source)
  • As he grew older, Langston Hughes distanced himself from his most radical poems.†
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