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. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. . . . 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." (from Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain")
__ Saying that people will express themselves no mater what anyone thinks or says about them. No matter how they look and no mater how they sound. That you should make your mark in life by being yourself and only you.
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