Angela’s Reviews > Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes > Status Update

I’ve been a singer:
All the way from Africa to Georgia
I carried my sorrow songs.
I made ragtime.

I’ve been a victim:
The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo./
They lynch me now in Texas.

I am Negro:
Black as the night is black,
Black like the depths of my Africa.