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...Black Poets, edited by a man named Dudley Randall. I read that book cover to cover and dog-eared it. I let it take root inside me and grow, as George Steiner would say. Those poets, from Paul Lawrence Dunbar up through Ntozake Shange, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker and Margaret Danner, they were my first influence, even before I was writing. It took me a long time to learn how to read white people’s poetry...
...with him, and many, many performers after him. Early in their careers, the Rolling Stones opened for Hooker. Early in his career, Bob Dylan shared the bill with Hooker. Bruce Springsteen, Ry Cooder and others have all paid tribute to Hooker, in songs, in print, in spirit. The poet Langston Hughes once lamented that "they've taken my blues and gone." Not with Hooker. He played duets with Van Morrison, with Bonnie Raitt, with Keith Richards, with Los Lobos and Santana. He made sure to be seen alongside the new, more popular artists who had borrowed from his work...
Remember Me to Harlem:The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten...
...early letter to Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten comments that "there are so many things that one can't talk about in a letter." This passing remark stands as a challenge to the reader of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. For while the whole of a relationship may not be captured in its letters, many of its details and complications lay buried within and between the lines, waiting to be uncovered. Emily Bernard's extensive collection and study of the 39-year correspondence between two of the Harlem Renaissance...
...that you don't know where you are from day to day, but you do know you are in a place that is exciting, tragic, alternately deadly and life affirming, beautiful, melancholy, delicious, religious, full of equal doses of history and flim-flam, and above all, enduring. Langston Hughes, a Harlem Renaissance writer, created a character for his columns called Jesse B. Semple, or Simple, who boasted: "I've been insulted, eliminated, locked in, locked out, and left holding the bag. But I am still here." Sound familiar...