Langston Hughes Quote

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!"


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


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...

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...

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...

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...