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I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to he a Negro. What the qualities of life were. With their imagination, they combine two great loves: the love of words and the love of life. Poetry results.

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I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to he a Negro. What the qualities of life were. With their imagination, they combine two great loves: the love of words and the love of life. Poetry results.

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