Original: Berry, 1983 & 1992, p.60 Hughes wrote what would be considered the manifesto for him and his contemporaries published in The Nation in 1926, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain: :The younger Negro artists who create now intend to express :our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame.
Simplified: Hughes wrote:   :"The younger Negro artists who create now intend to express :our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame.