Alain LeRoy Locke Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.”
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“We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.”
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“Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.”
-- Alain LeRoy Locke
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