Nicolas Guillen (1902 - 1989) is seen as an example of the acceptance of the dual culture inheritance

Nicolàs Guillèn, "Son Numero 6," from El son entero (Buenos Aires: Editorial Pleamar, 1947),
trans. George Irish in Savacou 3/4 (1970/1971), p. 112.

"Some time ago, I wrote an exploration into West Indian literature in which I tried to use jazz as an aesthetic criterion for understanding what certain of our writers were trying to do. My assumption was that all African-influenced artists, whatever their individual styles, participated in certain modes of expression, and that understanding the patterns of one could lead to an understanding of how the work of all relates together in a mutual continuum."

Nicolàs Guillen, "Sensemayà" from West Indies Ltd (1934), in El son entero, pp. 60-61.

These lines are used as an example of "improvisation" in the literature of African expression