"If you want to honor me, give..." - Quote by Langston Hughes
If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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“All things considered, there is only Matisse.”
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