Langston Hughes:

Put it this way: I am a Negro, and I am an American. I am a poet, and I am a writer. I am a human being, and I am black. I am a man, and I am a woman. I am an old man, and I am a young man. I am a child, and I am an adult. I am a fool, and I am a wise man. I am a saint, and I am a sinner.

— Langston Hughes Modern

Harlem Renaissance poet

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