Langston Hughes — "If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We …"

If white people 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 people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
Langston Hughes — Langston Hughes Modern · Harlem Renaissance poet

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The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain

Date: 1926

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