(from Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.") ... In a letter that Aaron Douglas wrote to Langston Huges he described the feeling that he felt towards the Renaissance he wrote, "Let's bare our arms and plunge them deep through laughter, through pain, through sorrow, through hope, through disappointment, into the very depths of the souls of our people and drag forth material crude, rough, neglected. ... The black philosopher Alian Locke published his most talked about essay "The New Negro", in his essay he urged that "Art must discover and reveal the beauty which preju...

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