African American Influence On Langston Hughes

American poet and social activist Langston Hughes is renowned for his unique depictions of African American life in the United States throughout the 1900s. Through his work he portrays the sadness, happiness, and love in their culture. Hughes once said, “We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.” In other words, his and other African American writers’ work was criticized simply because of their ethnicity, so they had to be very careful about what and how they wrote.
Most African American writers at that time very meticulous about what they published; they wanted to portray only the best qualities of their culture to the whites. However, Hughes’s poems