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Sterling Brown Quotes

«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.»
«Propaganda, however legitimate, can speak no louder than the truth.»
«Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.»
«[T]he 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.»
«We send a crew out to move them just as if they hired a moving company themselves.»