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When I got you I Thought I had an angel-chile. When I got you Thought I had an angel-chile. from “Love Again Blues”
When I got you I
Thought I had an angel-chile.
When I got you
Thought I had an angel-chile.

from “Love Again Blues”

(Source: ldpd.lamp.columbia.edu)

Gordon Parks, Langston Hughes, 1941

Gordon Parks, Langston Hughes, 1941

Langston Hughes explains rhythm to children—in The Book of Rhythms.

Langston Hughes explains rhythm to children—in The Book of Rhythms.

from the Langston Hughes archive at Yale.

from the Langston Hughes archive at Yale.

from Langston Hughes’s Haiti scrapbook

from Langston Hughes’s Haiti scrapbook

(Source: beinecke.library.yale.edu)

anticipatedstranger:

Born today, Langston Hughes. via Yale

Langston Hughes’s “Weary Blues”