Langston Hughes, "'Ballads of Lenin"' (1933) https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2020/04/21/langston-hughes-two-poems-about-lenin/
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Lenin walks around the world. Frontiers cannot bar him. Neither barracks nor barricades impede. Nor does barbed wire scar him. Lenin walks around the world. Black, brown, and white receive him. Language is no barrier. The strangest tongues believe him. Lenin walks around the world. The sun sets like a scar. Between the darkness and the dawn There rises a red star.
— Langston Hughes on Vladimir Lenin
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Source: Wikiquote: "Vladimir Lenin" (Quotes about Lenin: Alphabetized by author or source )
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About Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes (1 February 1902 – 22 May 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, social activist and newspaper columnist.
About Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes (1 February 1902 – 22 May 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, social activist and newspaper columnist.
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