I Am Langston Hughes

"We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren't, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too... If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves."

~Langston Hughes

I Am Langston Hughes

I am a African American poet, novelist and playwright from the Harlem Renaissance .

I am on of the important and well known writers of the Harlem Renaissance who influenced many African American poets for many generations.

I am heavily influenced by my beloved hometown Harlem.

I am a graduate of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania .

I am not afraid to be who I am.
(Hughes quoted:  "No great poet has ever been afraid of being himself")

I Am Langston Hughes