Talking of the history of the strife of his people, who says? "He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro Soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...
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Zora Neale Hurston in "How It Feels To Be Coloured Me"
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W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk
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Langston Hughes in "Let America be America Again"
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Claude McKay in Home to Harlem