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I am a Negro:
Black as the night is black,
Black like the depths of my Africa.
Langston Hughes
Negro (1926)
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
Langston Hughes
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Born:
February 1, 1902
Died:
May 22, 1967
(aged 65)
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