(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. ... Langston Hughes once said "The ordinary Negro hasn't heard of the Negro Renaissance. ... Writers were able to deliver a more subtle, and more effective, message by...

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A new generation of young writers and artists, including Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes took ownership of the literary Renaissance (Collier, 1985). Langston Hughes was one of the poets who published many works of literature during this time. ...

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