Langston Hughes

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Langston_Hughes

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:Poet novelist social activist
gptkbp:associatedAct	gptkb:Harlem_Renaissance
gptkbp:associatedWith	gptkb:African_American_literature gptkb:Harlem_Renaissance gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement gptkb:Black_Arts_Movement Jazz music
gptkbp:awards	gptkb:Anisfield-Wolf_Book_Award Spingarn Medal
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:Joplin,_Missouri
gptkbp:born	February 1, 1902
gptkbp:children	(none)
gptkbp:deathPlace	gptkb:Schomburg_Center_for_Research_in_Black_Culture
gptkbp:died	May 22, 1967
gptkbp:education	gptkb:Columbia_University gptkb:Lincoln_University
gptkbp:famousQuote	"What happens to a dream deferred?" "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." "Life is for the living." I,_too,_sing_America.
gptkbp:genre	lyric poetry blues poetry jazz poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Langston Hughes
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Langston_Hughes_Jr. gptkb:Alice_Walker gptkb:James_Baldwin gptkb:Richard_Wright gptkb:Zora_Neale_Hurston gptkb:Gwendolyn_Brooks gptkb:Amiri_Baraka gptkb:Lorine_Niedecker Toni Morrison Nikki Giovanni Maya Angelou Rita Dove
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Walt_Whitman gptkb:Paul_Laurence_Dunbar gptkb:Carl_Sandburg
gptkbp:nationality	American
gptkbp:notableWork	I Wonder as I Wander Montage of a Dream Deferred The Weary Blues The Big Sea
gptkbp:occupation	playwright writer editor
gptkbp:spouse	(not married)