Many people may think there only the negative responses of whites in the Harlem Renaissance because according to Claude Mckay who was one of the most important poets and writers in the Harlem Renaissance, his poems If We Must Die and America both illustrated the negatives responses and whites in that time. ... For instance, one of the most important poets named Langston Hughes were influenced by several whites in his literary life. ... Hughes had followed the direction of Vachel Lindsay and "returned to Harlem and joined the party-or rather the parties" (Hart 617). Hughes got to know...

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(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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