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This question refers to the following quotation."We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves."Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," 1926Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," The Nation, June 23, 1926.The sentiments expressed in the quotation above are best understood in the context of the

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