LISTEN FLUENTLY
SIMPLE SPEAKS HIS MIND, by Langston Hughes; Victor Gollancz. English price, 9/6. HE mind of a Harlem Negro, wisecracking as he props up.a bar, was well worth speaking, and we should all, in his own phrase, "listen fluently." Here are the comedy and fetching turns of phrase of a coloured Damon Runyon. Here too is a serious concern to improve the position of his race and end Jim Crowism: " ... Every time I saw a picture in the coloured papers of coloured soldiers receiving medals in the last war, a white officer was always doing the pinning. I have not yet seen a picture in no paper of a coloured officer pinning a medal on a white soldier." I wish all propaganda was as funny as
this book:
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 662, 14 March 1952, Page 10
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131LISTEN FLUENTLY New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 662, 14 March 1952, Page 10
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