| 1933 - 666 páginas
...you. These properties belong to great art. Eight years ago, Hughes, in defending Negro Art, wrote, "If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it does not matter. We know we are beauOPPORTUNITY tiful. And ugly too." Now, he writes of these same... | |
| Vassilis Lambropoulos, David Neal Miller - 1987 - 552 páginas
...preferences do not count in the Black World. As Langston Hughes himself put it half a century ago: "If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter."20 This brief case history in the problem of literary evaluation illustrates, among other things,... | |
| Kathy J. Ogren - 1992 - 240 páginas
...their white, respectable, ordinary books and papers and catch a glimmer of their own beauty. We younger artists who create now intend to express our individual...beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs.54 Hughes punctuated "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" with "tom-tom" rhythms that... | |
| Elinor Des Verney Sinnette - 1989 - 284 páginas
...participants, summed up the spirit and intent of his fellow artists when he wrote in the Nation: The younger Negro artists who create now intend to express...doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. . . . If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter... | |
| Robert B. Stepto - 1991 - 252 páginas
...in 1926, within a year after Wright's persona made his commencement speech at the Jim Hill School: We younger Negro artists who create now intend to...pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. ... If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either.... | |
| Faith Berry - 1992 - 418 páginas
...the adverse critical reaction to Fire!! In "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" he had written, "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to...pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. . . . If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter... | |
| Sterling A. Brown - 1996 - 340 páginas
...the manifesto of young New Negro artists, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," Hughes writes: We younger Negro artists who create now intend to...doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. ... If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either.... | |
| Cary D. Wintz - 1996 - 522 páginas
...support ourselves, although none of us had enough money on which to eat. It was about that time that I wrote, "We younger Negro artists who create now intend...pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. ... If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either."... | |
| Cary D. Wintz - 1996 - 500 páginas
...Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." some months THE CRISIS. July 198] 280 before, he had written. "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to...pleased we are glad. If they are not. it doesn't matter . . . If colored people a re pleased we are glad. If they are nnt. their displeasure doesn't matter... | |
| Mel Horwitz - 1997 - 324 páginas
...article on the "Negro in American l.iterature" there is a quote from a passage by l.angston Hughes. "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to...doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful, and ugly too. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either.... | |
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