We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individu…

Langston Hughes
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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 glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter. ✨ Langston Hughes (1995). Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62, p.5, University of Illinois Press
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