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Article: Langston's Buddha Smile.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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The Harlem Renaissance bard always celebrated black America's joy as well as our resistance
Reading Langston
Simple's Uncle Sam by Langston Hughes Hill & Wang, May 2000, $13.00 ISBN 0-809-08681-6
Sometimes while walking alongside a river or lake I feel a little Langston in me. Suddenly I have a desire to throw all my possessions into the water and listen to my heart. I felt this way after reading The Big Sea (Hill & Wang, 1940) in college. I wanted to stand on the S.S. Malone with Hughes heading towards Africa. There was something romantic and spiritual about what Langston Hughes did on the deck of that boat. I like his courage and his ...