"Montage of a Dream Deferred"

“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”

“A Centennial Tribute to L. Hughes at Howard University”

“A selection of Langston Hughes's more political poetry”

“Langston Hughes on Poets.org”

“1988 audio interview of Arnold Rampersad, author of The Life of Langston Hughes. Interview by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio”

“You see, unfortunately, I am not black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the United States, the word “Negro” is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown. My father was a darker brown. My mother an olive-yellow.”