"Folks, I'm telling you,/Birthing is hard/And Dying is mean/So get yourself/Some loving in between", he writes in "Advice", while "To fling my arms wide/In some place of the sun" begins his "Dream Variations".  "They'll see how beautiful I am/And be ashamed" he concludes in "I, Too". "Go home and write/a page tonight./And let that page come out of you/Then, it will be true." says the instructor in his "Theme for English B," while "Droning a drowsy syncopated tune/Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon" begins his "The Weary Blues". His most famous works contain the lines "Does it dry up like
"Folks, I'm telling you,/Birthing is hard/And Dying is mean/So get yourself/Some loving in between", he writes in "Advice", while "To fling my arms wide/In some place of the sun" begins his "Dream Variations".  "They'll see how beautiful I am/And be ashamed" he concludes in "I, Too". "Go home and write/a page tonight./And let that page come out of you/Then, it will be true." says the instructor in his "Theme for English B," while "Droning a drowsy syncopated tune/Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon" begins his "The Weary Blues". His most famous works contain the lines "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" and "My soul has grown deep like the rivers". For 10 points, name African-American poet of "Harlem" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".
"Folks, I'm telling you,/Birthing is hard/And Dying is mean/
Langston Hughes