 We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter.  Modernism and Mourning - Page 107edited by - 2007 - 310 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | African Americans - 1933 - 666 pages
...you. These properties belong to great art. Eight years ago, Hughes, in defending Negro Art, wrote, "If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it does not matter. We know we are beauOPPORTUNITY tiful. And ugly too." Now, he writes of these same... | |
 | Benjamin Brawley - Biography & Autobiography - 1966 - 420 pages
...note the position of Langston Hughes, who has also written in the Nation (June 23, 1926). Says he: "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express...individual darkskinned selves without fear or shame. If the white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful.... | |
 | Adelaide M. Cromwell, Martin Kilson - Africa - 1969 - 416 pages
...Langston Hughes. In 1926 Hughes proclaimed the ideological orientation of this group of writers: "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express...individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. . . . We know we are beautiful. And ugly, too. . . . We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we... | |
 | Amritjit Singh - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 184 pages
...blacks in what came to be known later as the literary manifesto of younger Renaissance writers: We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express...are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored... | |
 | Peggy Rosenthal - Religion - 2000 - 206 pages
...Renaissance poets of the 1920s. One of their number, Langston Hughes, put their common purpose this way: "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express...our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame."2 In Haiti there was similar ferment. A group of young intellectuals, including the poet Jacques... | |
 | Nancy F. Cott - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 662 pages
...declaration of independence, a chance for black people to create their own images. In 1926 he wrote, "If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautifuL And ugly too If colored people are pleased we are glad. It they are... | |
 | Keith Clark - African American men - 2001 - 268 pages
...pronouncement, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man": "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express...are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored... | |
 | Venetria K. Patton, Maureen Honey - History - 2001 - 678 pages
...aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro — and beautiful!'. . . We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express...are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter." Bravo, Mr. Hughes! From now on under your leadership we expect our artists to express their... | |
 | Manning Marable - History - 2001 - 358 pages
...Dispatches from the Ebony Tower Introduction: Black Studies and the Racial Mountain Manning Marable We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express...pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. . . . We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as... | |
 | Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders - African American authors - 2001 - 660 pages
...ourselves, although none of us had enough money on which to eat. It was about that time that I wrote, "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express...pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. . . . If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't... | |
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