Langston Hughes was born on the day February 1,1902 in Joplin Missouri but lived with his grand mother Lawrence,Kansas until he was thirteen.Hughes had his first pieces of verse published in the Central High Monthly, a sophisticated school magazine.He wrote one of his famous poems ever and it was called ''Negro River Speaks''.
I could take the Harlem night
and wrap around you,
Take the neon lights and make a crown,
Take the Lenox Avenue busses,
Taxis, subways,
And for your love song tone their rumble down.
Take Harlem's heartbeat,
Make a drumbeat,
Put it on a record, let it whirl,
And while we listen to it play,
Dance with you till day--
Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl.