We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives . . . Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Source: National Assembly of Authors and Dramatists Symposium, 7 May 1957.
-- Langston Hughes, (Feb 1 1902-1967), US poet, writer, editor; He was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance who wrote The Weary Blues, 1926.