“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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