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His friends included the "poet laureate" of the period, Countee Cullen, and he would also become the "spiritual father" to the young writer James Baldwin, and a friend of artist Georgia O'Keeffe, writer Henry Miller and many others.
As Hagen points out, since Angelou was encouraged to appreciate literature as a young child, she continues to read, exposing herself to a wide variety of authors, ranging from Countee Cullen's poetry to Leo Tolstoy and other Russian authors.
It also split the black literary community, as some, e.g. Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Wallace Thurman, appreciated it, while others like Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke regarded it as an "affront to the hospitality of black folks".
The quickest wit in what was a very witty group, which encompassed Helene Johnson, Dorothy Peterson, Countee Cullen, Augusta Savage, Dorothy West (then a teacher), Harold Jackman, and John P. Davis (a law student at the time), as well as hangers-on, friends, and acquaintances, Hurston dubbed herself the "Queen of the Niggerati".