“The glory of the day was in her face,
The beauty of the night was in her eyes.”
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) writer and activist
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face, st. 1 (1917).
“The night is beautiful,
So are the faces of my people.”
"My People," in the magazine Poems in Crisis (October 1923); reprinted in The Weary Blues (1926)
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So are the faces of my people." by Langston Hughes?
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