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Paul Laurence Dunbar
“He was the first to rise to a height from which he could take a perspective view of his own race. . . . the first to feel sympathetically its heart-wounds, its yearnings, its aspirations, and to voice them all in a purely literary form.”—James Weldon Johnson
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