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African-American poet, novelist, and playwright, one of the foremost interpreters of racial relationships in the United States. Influenced by the Bible, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes' works gave a voice to the joys and pain of the black experience in America. From Harlem's Bitter Laughter (1948): Harlem laughing ... many white people do not understand how Negroes can laugh at the stupid indignities so often heaped upon them, from low to high, in this American country of ours. The indignities themselves are not funny. But there is something so pitifully absurd about the racial stupidities of some of our white folks, something in such awkward bad taste indicative of such provincial bad manners, that it is hard to keep from laughing ... "Acute embarrassment" over the ejection of the Ethiopian Minister from his box. Ha! Ha! says Harlem. ..."
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