I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread
-Langston Hughes, poet and novelist (1 Feb 1902-1967)
1936 photo by Carl Van Vechten
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. He famously wrote about the period that “the negro was in vogue”, which was later paraphrased as “when Harlem was in vogue. source: Wikipedia
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Welcome to February
I so agree..
That last couplet is so powerful.
I’d forgotten about this poem but I say an excerpt on a site and was reminded and decided to do this little tribute since it is February. Thanx for stopping in Mellow C. ~~dru~~