Negroes - those of means - then themselves try to move a little further out on Long Island, white people flee a little further, and after a while … you get to the ocean. Well, if those folks move to, say, Saint Albans, white people flee from Saint Albans, move a little further out on Long Island. In recent years, more and more Americans have been leaving the big cities for suburban areas and among them have been a number of Negroes who are able to buy homes in the suburbs. Well, I try to put these things - these problems - into poetry. For example, when Negroes move into some American communities, even if it’s just one Negro family moving into a block, within a few days, sign begin to go up: “For Sale.” And, usually, the real estate brokers who handle the sales double the prices on those houses - because they know that Negro people often have a hard time buying decent homes, and so they charge them more for the homes that eventually they are willing to sell them.

Many of my poems try to capture various aspects of this problem. Perhaps we should say the problems of American democracy in relation to the Negro people, because for some reason the Negro in America has always been called “a problem.” That is one of my poems about the problems of the Negro people in relation to American democracy. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.Recorded for 'Langston Hughes reads Langston Hughes'

Alongside such famous works as “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author’s lesser-known verse for children topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press and poems such as “Goodbye Christ” that were once suppressed. Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America–and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. You can read this before The Collected Poems PDF full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Collected Poems written by Langston Hughes which was published in 1994-11. Brief Summary of Book: The Collected Poems by Langston Hughes

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