black man

occupation / innovator as

poet

intellectual movement

Harlem Renaissance

nationality

American

novelist

essayist

literary editor

scientific organization

Phi Beta Kappa Society

teacher

race / ethnicity

African American

innovator in the field of

essay

poetry

is one who, to enjoy himself in America, must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

To be a colored man in America . . . and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher . . . Jessie Redmon Fauset

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