I am a Negro Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Wear it Like a banner For the proud Not like a shroud.James Langston Hughes
It is the duty of the younger Negro artist ... to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white I am a Negro and beautiful'
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Negro blood is sure powerful because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop you are a Negro ... Black is powerful.
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Rest a pale evening ... A tall slim tree ... Night coming tenderly Black like me.
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I am the American heartbreak The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Good morning, daddy Aint you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred You think Its a happy beat.
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