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Langston Hughes
American
February 1, 1902
Poet
Violent anger makes me physically ill.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, 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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