Alain LeRoy Locke quotes
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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.”
-- Alain LeRoy LockeSource : Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title
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“We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.”
-- Alain LeRoy LockeSource : Alain LeRoy Locke (1988). “The Negro and his music: Negro art: past and present”, Ayer Co Pub
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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 LockeSource : Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title
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“The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.”
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“Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.”
-- Alain LeRoy LockeSource : Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title
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“The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.”
-- Alain LeRoy Locke
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“A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.”
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“My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!”
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Source : "How we made the epic of Oz". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.
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“I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.”
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