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Money and art are far apart.

Money and art are far apart.

Langston Hughes
Art
Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.222, University of Missouri Press

If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.

Langston Hughes
Girl, Art, Children
Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.77, University of Missouri Press

This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.

Langston Hughes
Art, Race, America
Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.32, University of Missouri Press

It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . 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!"

Langston Hughes
Beautiful, Art, White
Nation, 23 June 1926

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