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10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit.
Hughes was inspired by Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing,” but he sought to include the voices that Whitman had left out ...
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I Hear America Singing
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In his first novel, Langston Hughes sang a song of himself
He wrote an answer to Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” that spoke to the Black experience, and his poems and other writings continue to move us with their heartfelt, clear-eyed accounts of ...