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Langston Hughes, Dreams - Whether it was short or not his poem really spoke to me. What he is saying is don't let go of the dreams you have. If you let go of the dreams that you have then life is not the same and/or has no meaning. Everybody has a dreams to do something, so they should hold on to it and keep pushing forward to achieve it. Claude Mckay, America - The "her" in her poem is American. Mckay speaks about the hate and the love she has for the United States.She may hate her life her and the things that may happen here, but she still has that love for American whether she wants to or not. Langston Hughes,   Harlem- In his poem "Harlem" Hughes speaks about the change in Harlem. How prices go up, the difficulty to get a job and it being because he is colored. His life is in a complete struggle now due to the fact that he is a colored man. Now all they can do is re...

Booker T. Washington was a very inspirational African American in my mind. He was an author, an educator, and a founder of Tuskegee. He went through the burrows to be brought out to the light and become what we see as a successful black men back in that day and age. Being born into slavery, being looked at as a workhorse and not a person, it was no problem for him to go out into the world and be someone. I am glad to have learned about someone who was this dedicated to become something. He didn’t allow his background to define him. He allowed the work he did behind the scenes define who he was as a person.