And this is the way I look at the poems and short stories like Langston Hughes or Zara Neal Hurston wrote. ... To invent something new or just the feeling of being part of something special makes the lives of people like Aaron Douglas or Langston Hughes so interesting and creative. ... And it was Langston Hughes who said on the editorial page of FIRE !! ... were writers like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, John Preston Davis, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett and Wallace Thurman, who edited FIRE !!. ... Where is the point that stories like "The Wedding Day" by Gwendol...

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A few authors who discuss the various ideas of sexuality in their writings are Gwendolyn Bennett, "To a Dark Girl, " Claude McKay, "America, " Langston Hughes, "Red Silk Stockings," and Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. " In this essay, I will be discussing the fact that although the topic of sexuality has a restrained history for African Americans, as they were suppressed from freedom of their sexuality among other things, these authors display their suggestion of what sex means. ... The short poem suggests to a black woman that she should be proud of her background. ......

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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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Poets like Langston Hughes and Claude McKay created poems that spoke of racial discrimination of black people which put a new perspective on racism to the general population. ... Claude McKay illustrates the struggle of black people in a very racist environment in his poem "Enslaved," "Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, for weary centuries despised, oppressed, enslaved and lynched, denied a human place in the great life line of the Christian West; and in the Black Land disinherited, robbed in the ancient country of its birth, my heart grows sick with hate, becomes as lea...

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