This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America—this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.


The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, in The Nation [June 23,1926]

Langston Hughes Quotes

This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America—this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial...

This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America—this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial...

This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America—this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial...

This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America—this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial...