Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful! ✨ Nation,…

Langston Hughes
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful! ✨ Nation, 23 June 1926
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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Poems, 1951-1967, p.180, University of Missouri Press
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