This author wrote a monologue in which the speaker comments she has "been climbin' on" and "sometimes goin' in the dark" after declaring, "I'll tell you: / Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
This author wrote a monologue in which the speaker comments she has "been climbin' on" and "sometimes goin' in the dark" after declaring, "I'll tell you: / Life for me ain't been no crystal stair." In addition to "Mother to Son," this poet wrote the collections Fine Clothes to Jew and The Dream Keeper and a poem ending with a discussion about a person who "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" that centers on the speaker seeing a man "swaying to and fro on his rickety stool" when the speaker was "Down on Lennox Avenue the other night." For 10 points, name this Harlem Renaissance poet, who wrote "The Weary Blues" and "A Dream Deferred."
This author wrote a monologue in which the speaker comments she has "been climbin' on" and "sometimes goin' in the dark" after declaring, "I'll tell you: / Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
Langston {Hughes}