He wrote about Sandy Rodgers, who grows up in the town of Stanton, Kansas in one work, and one of his poems claims that "Christ is a nigger, beaten and black" before ending, "Nigger Christ on the cross of the South".  
He wrote about Sandy Rodgers, who grows up in the town of Stanton, Kansas in one work, and one of his poems claims that "Christ is a nigger, beaten and black" before ending, "Nigger Christ on the cross of the South".  This author of Not Without Laughter and "Christ in Alabama" wrote a poem that contains the lines, "America never was America to me", and the speaker of one of this man's poems says he "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" after he heard a "drowsy, syncopated tune". In another poem, he describes building a hut on the banks of the Congo and bathing in the Euphrates.  For 10 points—name this author of "The Weary Blues" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" who described an object that "just sags like a heavy load" in his poem " A Dream Deferred".
He wrote about Sandy Rodgers, who grows up in the town of Stanton, Kansas in one work, and one of his poems claims that "Christ is a nigger, beaten and black" before ending, "Nigger Christ on the cross of the South".  
Langston {Hughes}