Harlem Renaissance
Harlem renaissance is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
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"Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."
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🇺🇸Zora Neale Hurston
Entertainment
Harlem Renaissance
1891–1960
"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."
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🇺🇸Langston Hughes
Literature
Harlem Renaissance
1901–1967
"Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be."
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🇺🇸James Weldon Johnson
Social Activism
Harlem Renaissance
1871–1938
"Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst."
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🇺🇸Augusta Savage
Art
Harlem Renaissance
1892–1962
"I was a Leap Year baby, and it seems to me that I have been leaping ever since."
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🇺🇸Duke Ellington
Music
Harlem Renaissance
1899–1974
"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."
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🇺🇸Angelina Grimké
Literature
Harlem Renaissance
1880–1958
"Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights."
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🇺🇸Jean Toomer
Literature
Harlem Renaissance
1894–1967
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🇺🇸Nella Larsen
Literature
Harlem Renaissance
1893–1963
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Notable Quotes
"Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life."
— Langston Hughes, b. 1901View →
"Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be."
— Langston Hughes, b. 1901View →
"1988 audio interview of Arnold Rampersad, author of The Life of Langston Hughes. Interview by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio"
— Langston Hughes, b. 1901View →
"Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid."
— Langston Hughes, b. 1901View →
"Representative Poetry Online, University of Toronto"
— Langston Hughes, b. 1901View →