"Langston Hughes' poem, "I've Known Rivers," became the rallying cry for black Americans to take pride in their color, the reverberations of that attitude reached the Africans in the then French and British colonies."
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Maya Angelou Letter to My Daughter (2009) p. 156
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Langston Hughes
1902 โ 1967
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller
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