Unlike Locke, Hughes projects the emotional spectrum of music in the essence of black culture. “The Nationalist” begins when Hughes reflects a time when he was having a dialogue with a young poet that wanted to be white because of his upcoming. In quote “One of the most promising of the young Negro poet said to me once I want to write like a white poet” (Hughes, 1926). Art is not defined by whiteness but by talent and spirt. Hughes is calling for a revolution by expressing our culture because it he only identity we have to associate with. He states “He is never taught to see that beauty. He is taught to rather not to see it, or if he does, to be ashamed of it when not according to Caucasian” (Hughes, 1926). By calling for a revolution to
