 | 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 - 1966 - 420 pages
...Langston Hughes, who has also written in the Nation (June 23, 1926). Says he: "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our 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 - 1969 - 416 pages
...1926 Hughes proclaimed the ideological orientation of this group of writers: "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our 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... | |
 | Theresa Perry, Lisa Delpit - 1998 - 246 pages
...respectable, ordinary books and papers to catch a glimpse of their own beauty. We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual darkskinned...matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves. Langston Hughes The Nation,... | |
 | Sharon F. Patton - 1998 - 328 pages
...with his friends, among them poet Countee Cullen and artist Palmer Hayden. We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned...we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within... | |
 | Joseph Allen Boone - 1998 - 532 pages
...rebelling in making "younger Negro artists" the focus of their new journal. "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual darkskinned...pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. ... If black people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter," Langston Hughes wrote.... | |
 | Laurence A. Breiner - 1998 - 290 pages
...happy."33 The sentiment closely echoes Langston Hughes's manifesto of 1926: We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned...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 matter either.36... | |
 | Joseph Allen Boone - 1998 - 532 pages
...or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. ... If black people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter," Längsten Hughes wrote.' 16 Indeed, stirring up trouble was an explicit goal of Fire!! As Nugent reminisced,... | |
 | Nancy F. Cott - 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...doesn't matter. We know we are beautifuL And ugly too If colored people are pleased we are glad. It they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either.... | |
 | Peggy Rosenthal - 2000 - 206 pages
...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 Roumain,... | |
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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. 
