"He came after me. At the time, I was not published at all, in '61, '62. I was not a popular Black poet, because some of the things I said ran very counter to a line that was the line in Black poetry at the time. And there was a lot of sexism involved too in those days-not that there isn't now, but it was particularly then...I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I think it had a lot to do with it, that he was closeted."
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From an interview in Conversations with Audre Lorde (2004)
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Langston Hughes
1902 β 1967
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller
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