I am the American heartbreak The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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I am a Negro Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.James Langston Hughes
Wear it Like a banner For the proud Not like a shroud.
James Langston Hughes
Rest a pale evening ... A tall slim tree ... Night coming tenderly Black like me.
James Langston Hughes
Quick, sunrise, come Sunrise out of Africa, Quick, come.
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'
James Langston Hughes
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.
James Langston Hughes
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