More from Langston Hughes
- Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951), “Harlem”
- “Let America Be America Again” (1935)
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, p. vii (1966)
Langston Hughes on family
So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Mother to Son (1922)
