... was the diversity of its expression. In a letter that Aaron Douglas wrote to Langston Huges he described the feeling that he felt towards the Renaissance he wrote, "Let's bare our arms and plunge them deep through laughter, through pain, through sorrow, through hope, through disappointment, into the very depths of the souls of our people and drag forth material crude, rough ... proposed "smashing" all the social and racial impediments that hindered black achievement. The diverse literary expression of the Harlem Renaissance ranged from the fiction of James Weldon Johnson and the poetry ...

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