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 .