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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

Langston Hughes

1926

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Hughes, Langston. "Proem." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. "Negro." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, I. 1.

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