Sterling Brown Quotes

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

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I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to he a Negro. what the qualities of life were. With their imagination, they combine two great loves the love of words and the love of life. Poetry results.

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I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.

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The sincere, sensitive artist, willing to go beneath the cliches of popular belief to get at an underlying reality, will be wary of confining a race's entire characters to a half-dozen narrow grooves.

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One thing they cannot prohibit -- The strong men . . . coming onThe strong men gittin' stronger.Strong men. . . .Stronger. . . .

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We send a crew out to move them just as if they hired a moving company themselves.

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Propaganda, however legitimate, can speak no louder than the truth.

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