Frases de Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes foi um poeta americano, ativista social, novelista, dramaturgo e colunista para Joplin, Missouri.

Ele foi um dos primeiros inovadores da então nova forma de arte literaria chamada poesia-jazz. Hughes é mais conhecido como um dos líderes do movimento "harlem renaissance". Ele escreveu sobre o famoso período em que "o negro estava na moda", o qual depois foi parafraseado para "quando Harlem estava na moda".

✵ 1. Fevereiro 1902 – 22. Maio 1967   •   Outros nomes James Langston Hughes, لنقستون هیوز
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Langston Hughes Frases famosas

“Agarre-se a seus sonhos, pois, se eles morrerem, a vida será como um pássaro de asa quebrada, incapaz de voar.”

Hold fast to your dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes‎ - Página 409, de Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders, Steven Carl Tracy - Publicado por University of Missouri Press, 2001, ISBN 0826213944, 9780826213945 - 632 páginas

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Langston Hughes: Frases em inglês

“Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
They hung my black young lover
To a cross roads tree.”

"Song for a Dark Girl" (l. 1-4), from Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)

“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”

"Dreams," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941)

“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”

"A Note on Humor", from The Book of Negro Humor https://books.google.com/books?id=60FkAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Humor+is+laughing+at+what+you+haven%27t+got+when+you+ought+to+have+it.%22, p. vii (1966)

“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?”

"Harlem"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Contexto: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore —
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over —
like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

“I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.”

"I, Too, Sing America," in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959)

“You are white —
yet a part of me, as I am a part of you.”

"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Contexto: You are white —
yet a part of me, as I am a part of you.
That’s American.
Sometimes perhaps you don’t want to be a part of me.
Nor do I often want to be a part of you.
But we are, that’s true!
As I learn from you,
I guess you learn from me —
although you’re older — and white —
and somewhat more free.

“The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!”

Let America Be America Again (1935)
Contexto: Sure, call me any ugly name you choose —
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

“I stay cool, and dig all jive,
That's the way I stay alive.
My motto,
as I live and learn,
is
Dig and be dug
In return.”

"Motto"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Variante: My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return.

“I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.”

"The Black Man Speaks," from Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943)

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