James Mercer Langston Hughes

GPTKB entity

Statements (42)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:political_movement
gptkb:Author
gptkb:poet
gptkbp:bfsLayer 3
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Langston_Hughes
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:Harlem_Renaissance
African American culture
Jazz poetry
gptkbp:awards gptkb:award
gptkb:Spingarn_Medal
gptkbp:birth_place gptkb:Joplin,_Missouri
gptkbp:born February 1, 1902
gptkbp:children (none)
gptkbp:death_place gptkb:New_York_City,_New_York
gptkbp:died May 22, 1967
gptkbp:education gptkb:Columbia_University
gptkbp:famous_quote " Let America be America again."
" What happens to a dream deferred?"
" The only way to deal with the future is to be in it."
" Life is for the living."
" Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
" A dream deferred is a dream denied."
" I too, am America."
" The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
" I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
" We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label James Mercer Langston Hughes
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Nikki_Giovanni
gptkb:Gwendolyn_Brooks
gptkb:Amiri_Baraka
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Walt_Whitman
gptkb:Paul_Laurence_Dunbar
gptkb:Carl_Sandburg
gptkbp:known_for gptkb:Harlem_Renaissance
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:Native_American_tribe
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:Montage_of_a_Dream_Deferred
gptkb:The_Weary_Blues
The Big Sea
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:Author
gptkb:newspaper
gptkb:playwright
gptkbp:spouse (not married)