Langston Hughes

May i just say this is by far my favorite poet Langston Hughes. His style of writing is so real and riveting to me. I read "You and your whole race" and "Mother to Son" both are beautiful poems that takes you back in his time during the Harlem Renaissance period. I feel he brings alive what a lot of people still don't know how it really was back in those times. How he speaks in different tones and languages (dialects) to show you how certain words were spoken in that period of time. This poem is in such a feeling of  optimism and he illustrates the race struggle he witness with being a African American man and just being African American period. He wanted to show his people there is away :"With your hands of greed seeking to touch my throat, I dare you to come one step nearer me:/When you can say that you will be free!" Freedom is what he spoke so strongly about in his poems.

Does anyone else love his poetry as much as i do ? I agree with Heru about his optimism.