<span>The main idea in this excerpt from "The Negro Artist
and the Racial Mountain" is the third statement. In this short essay,
written for The Nation magazine in 1926, poet Langston Hughes wants to show that
there is still a lot to be written about the African American experience. This
idea is illustrated with lines: ”And when he chooses to touch on the relations
between Negroes and whites in this country, with their innumerable overtones and
undertones surely, and especially for literature and the drama, there is an
inexhaustible supply of themes at hand”.</span>