a sit down with Langston Hughes.

Langston Hughes is the considerably the most popular author and poet of the Harlem Renaissance movement, a time period where African Americans were advancing both musically and culturally.
he was a avid force in the movement of the renaissance and is the inspiration behind many authors and cultural movements today.


a bit about Hughes , 

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) One of many talented poets of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s -- in the company of James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and others -- was Langston Hughes. He embraced African- American jazz rhythms and was one of the first black writers to attempt to make a profitable career out of his writing. Hughes incorporated blues, spirituals, colloquial speech, and folkways in his poetry. An influential cultural organizer, Hughes published numerous black anthologies and began black theater groups in Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as New York City. He also wrote effective journalism, creating the character Jesse B. Semple ("simple") to express social commentary.  One of his most beloved poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921, 1925), embraces his African -- and universal -- heritage in a grand epic catalogue. The poem suggests that, like the great rivers of the world, African culture will endure and deepen: I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than theflow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunsetI've known rivers Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
-the MS team.