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Negro Laughter


Negro laughter...
    is not the laughter of those others
Who force their distrait mirth
    through thin pale lips.


Negro laughter...
    is a stem of joyouness, a hardy tendril
Thrusting through the moraines
    of long distress.

Written by Anita Scott Coleman (1890-1960)

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