I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my…

Langston Hughes
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940, p.22, University of Missouri Press
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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