America was never really America to him. Because in America, people were not judged based on the color of their skin. In America, people are allowed to be free and do what they please. He says, “There’s never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this “Homeland of the free.” Langston Hughes wishes for a land of the free where everyone is actually free. “O, let America be America again-/ The land that never has been yet-/ and yet must be- the land where every man is free”. He will not give up until America is America again. Langston Hughes’ poetry speaks just as loudly as he did ("Let America be America
America was never really America to him. Because in America, people were not judged based on the color of their skin. In America, people are allowed to be free and do what they please. He says, “There’s never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this “Homeland of the free.” Langston Hughes wishes for a land of the free where everyone is actually free. “O, let America be America again-/ The land that never has been yet-/ and yet must be- the land where every man is free”. He will not give up until America is America again. Langston Hughes’ poetry speaks just as loudly as he did ("Let America be America