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Beautiful Quotes by Langston Hughes
- We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are…
- It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want…
- Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!
- For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
- I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
- Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas
- I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat…
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