A collection of interviews, speeches, and essays by Langston
Hughes. Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston
Hughes is a record of a remarkable man talking. In texts ranging
from early interviews in the 1920s, when he was a busboy and
scribbling out poems on hotel napkins, to major speeches, such as
his keynote address at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in
Dakar, Senegal, in 1966, Hughes's words further amplify the
international reputation he established over the course of five
decades through more widely-published and well-known poems,
stories, novels, and plays. In these interviews, speeches, and
conversational essays, the writer referred to by admirers as the
"Poet Laureate of the Negro Race" and the "Dean of Black Letters"
articulated some of his most powerful critiques of fascism,
economic and racial oppression, and compromised democracy. It was
also through these genres that Hughes spoke of the responsibilities
of the Black artist, documented the essential contributions of
Black people to literature, music, and theatre, and chronicled the
substantial challenges that Black artists face in gaining
recognition, fair pay, and professional advancement. And it was
through these pieces, too, that Hughes built on his celebrated work
in other literary genres to craft an original, tragic-comic
persona-a Blues poet in exile, forever yearning for and coming back
to a home, a nation, that nevertheless continues to disappoint and
harm him. A global traveler, Hughes's words, "Let America be
America Again" were, throughout his career, always followed by a
caveat: "America never was America to me."
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