Langston Hughes

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

"I’d left a box of books in Harlem in the fall, and before we sailed I went after them. I brought them aboard ship with me. But when I opened them up and looked at them that night off Sandy Hook, they seemed too much like everything I had known in the past."

Langston Hughes Sails for Africa: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/out-of-soundings.php