Langston Hughes.

"I look at the world from awakening eyes in a black face..."

James Mercer Langston Hughes, born on February 1, 1901, was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in …